Callum Innes // Alphabet // Open lecture

//English below.

Skoski málarinn Callum Innes opnar sínu fjórðu einkasýningu í i8 gallerí 17. október næstkomandi. Að því tilefni mun hann halda gestafyrirlestur í LHÍ þar sem hann mun ræða listrænan starfsferil sinn og vinnuaðferðir, sem og næstu sýningu hans.

Í hartnær fjóra áratugi hefur Callum Innes helgað sig þróun nýs sjónræns tungumáls, eða stafrófs, sem byggir ekki á stöfum eða táknum, heldur litum og formum. Verk hans einkennast af notkun abstraktsjónar og rannsóknum hans á beitingu lita. Hann notast oft við aðferð sem kölluð er „afmálun“ þar sem nokkur lög af olíumálningu eru afmáð til þess að sýna litina sem þar eru undir. Þannig er grunnurinn að vinnuaðferð hans samspil nærveru og fjarveru, að gera og afgera.

Callum Innes (f. Edinborg, 1962) nam teikningu og málun í Gray’
s School of Art í Aberdeen og Edinburg College of Art. Einkasýningar hans í Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art í Edinborg og Institute of Contemporary Arts í London árið 1992 ollu straumhvörfum á ferli hans og síðan þá hefur hann sýnt í fjölda safna og gallería út um allan heim. Callum er víða talinn meðal fremstu listamanna sinnar kynslóðar og var tilnefndur til Turner verðlaunanna árið 1995. Verk hans eru í eigu opinberra safna á borð við Tate í London, Centre Pompidou í París, Kunsthaus Zürich, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum í New York, Art Gallery of Ontario í Toronto og í National Gallery of Australia í Canberra. Hann býr og starfar bæði í Edinborg og Osló.

Scottish painter Callum Innes is set to open his forth exhibition with i8 Gallery on October 17, 2024. Alongside the exhibition opening, the artist will host a guest lecture at LHÍ, where he will discuss his artistic process, career, and upcoming show.

For almost four decades, Callum Innes has dedicated himself to the creation of a new visual language, which is based on an alphabet not of letters or symbols but of colours and forms. His work is known for its dedication to abstraction and exploration of colour, often using a technique called ‘un-painting’, where he removes layers of oil paint to reveal underlying colours. This interplay between the additive and subtractive process, making and unmaking, presence and absence, constitutes the essence of the oeuvre developed by the artist.

Callum Innes (b. Edinburgh, 1962) studied painting and drawing at Gray‘s School of Art in Aberdeen and Edinburgh College of Art. Following breakthrough solo exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1992, he has gone on to show at major museums and galleries all over the world. Widely regarded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Innes was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1995. He won the NatWest Prize for Painting in 1998 and the Jerwood Prize for Painting in 2002, and his work is included in scores of prestigious public collections, including Tate in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Kunsthaus Zürich, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. He lives and works in Edinburgh and Oslo.