The 'Sean Scully' exhibition closed its doors yesterday with nearly 20,000 visitors

Yesterday, the Sean Scully exhibition at La Pedrera closed its doors, the most complete retrospective held in the city of Barcelona to date, organized by the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera and which could be visited between March 14 and July 6.

Marta Lacambra, general director of the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, explains in this regard: “Our commitment to creating exhibition experiences of great artists is a reflection of the firm commitment that the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation has to bring art closer to everyone. Over the past few months, this exhibition has been a clear example of this commitment, and joins previous ones with prominent figures such as Jaume Plensa and Antonio López. With these initiatives, we reaffirm our desire to bring art and culture closer to everyone, thus contributing to enriching the cultural fabric of our society. In addition, the Foundation and La Pedrera are positioned as a reference place for high-level exhibitions."

The exhibition has been visited by nearly 20,000 visitors and all the activities of the expanded exhibition sold out.

Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945) is one of the most prominent artists of contemporary abstraction. Marked by color, Scully has reduced the iconographic repertoire to a series of lines, stripes and blocks that have become the distinctive elements of his work. A reflective artist, he stands out above all for his pictorial technique, which is characterized by an intuitive layer of paint, often wet on wet, whose colors combine and emerge to form unique tones of great depth that fill his abstract compositions with warmth.

Scully prioritizes rhythm over form; the broad bands that structure her canvases vary in width, have blurred edges and do not all follow the same direction: some are horizontal and others vertical. The simplicity and repetition of the compositions create a visual cadence that, through the brushstrokes, vibrates with life and emotion. Each strip of color contains multiple gradations within it, and, over time, the colors that the artist uses become increasingly nuanced and complex.

The exhibition at La Pedrera has allowed us to participate in the evolution of her work and has highlighted Scully's desire to renew the understanding of abstraction through her desire to capture —in the artist's words— "something that reflects the dimensionality of the human spirit within the grid of our world".

The next exhibition organized by the Foundation is 'Cristina Iglesias. Passages' and will be on view from October 9, 2025 to January 25, 2026.