In conjunction with an exhibition held at Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, 24.3.2018-5.8.2018 and LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, 4.5.2019-8.9.2019.

Vorwort = Foreword / Piea Müller-Tamm & Hermann Arhnhold -- Zwischen Flächen lesen. Zu einigen Bedeutungs-Schichten von Sean Scullys relationaler Malerei der Verkörperung = Reading Between the Surfaces: On Several Layers of Meaning in Sean Scully's Relational Painting of Embodiment / Kirsten Claudia Voigt -- "Meine Kunst beinhaltet sowohl Rationalität als auch Emotionalität." Sean Scullys vielfältige Bezüge zur Geschichte der Malerei = "My Art Comprises Rationality as well as Emotionality": Sean Scully's Diverse References to the History of Painting / Tanja Pirsig-Marshall -- Abbildungen = Plates.

"Sean Scully: Vita Duplex" : March 24-August 5, 2018, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany.

"Sean Scully: Vita Duplex" : May 4-September 8, 2019, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany.

"Sean Scully, one of the most important aritsts of our time, allows conflict to be carried out in his works--conflict between structure and emotion, body and spirit, impulsivity and reflection. The Irish-American painter has been reinterpreting abstract art since the 1960s, not as a purely formal exploration of color, form, planes, structure, body, and light, but as a medium whose means of expression is tied to external and internal moods, literary influences, and physical experiences. Scully has articulated his attitude in many lectures, interviews, and texts, which comprise the starting point for the exhibition Vita Duplex. With 140 illustrations, the eponymous catalogue provides a comprehensive look at the artist's visual oeuvre, as well as his world of ideas, and defines its place in the history of abstract painting." --publisher's description, lower cover.

Parallel texts in German and English.