Callum Innes//Alphabet // Open lecture

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Scottish painter Callum Innes opens his fourth solo exhibition at i8 gallery on 17 October next year On that occasion, he will give a guest lecture at LHÍ where he will discuss his artistic career and working methods, as well as his next exhibition.

For nearly four decades, Callum Innes has devoted himself to the development of a new visual language, or alphabet, based not on letters or symbols, but on colors and shapes His work is characterized by the use of abstract vision and his research on the application of color He often uses a method called „decolonization“, in which several layers of oil paint are obliterated in order to show the colors under it Thus, the foundation of his working method is the interplay of presence and absence, to make and deconstruct.

Callum Innes (b. Edinburgh, 1962) studied drawing and painting in Gray’
his S School of Art in Aberdeen and Edinburg College of Art His solo exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1992 caused a turning point in his career and since then he has exhibited in a number of museums and galleries around the world Callum is widely regarded among the leading artists of his generation and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995. his work is held by public museums such as the Tate in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Kunsthaus Zurich, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra He lives and works in both Edinburgh and Oslo.

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 coming 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 colors and forms. His work is known for its dedication and exploration of color, often using a technique called ‘un-painting’, where he remains layers of oil paint to reveal and subtractive colors. This interaction between the additive and subtractive process, creation and unhindering, constitution, constitution of 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 visited 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 the scores of priests, Ontario and society in the National Gallery, London and Society in Iceland.