
Light Is Therefore Colour
22 December 2023 – 23 March 2024
Zuoz
Callum Innes works with painting and watercolour in an expressive yet highly precise manner. Vivid colors feed off of the artist’s every-day experiences, impinging on his consciousness and directly translating onto the canvas. The artist paints a seemingly meticulous arrangement, only to remove the paint again with turpentine, decisively leaving behind subtle indications of the painting’s process. A slender, feathered edge on one side of the canvas reveals a color that has been painted over and out again. In his watercolours, the lightness of one pigment allows for a gently layered technique, emphasizing a distinctive complementary approach to his painting.
Innes works in carefully choreographed steps, moving from one series of works to another, within which he plays with gentle variations in color, size and proportion. Monochrome rectangles slightly shift in format, whilst a thin streak of paint rushing down the canvas reveals the painter’s interest in both the so-called geometric as well as the amorphous or accidental. The paintings variants are magnified through the repetition in his work and incite a reevaluation of the rectangle and blemish as distinct categories.
Callum Innes is a Scottish artist who lives and works in Edinburgh and Oslo. He studied painting and drawing at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen and Edinburgh College of Art. Innes was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1995 and won the NatWest Prize for Painting in 1998 and the Jerwood Prize for Painting in 2002. His works have been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions, for example at Kode and Museum Lysverket in Bergen, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Kunsthalle Bern and Kunsthaus Zürich. His work is represented in many major collections, including the Tate Gallery 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.
1/22
Oil on Linen
195 × 190 cm
CI/P 122
2/22
Oil on Birch Ply
180 × 175 cm
CI/P 125
3/22
oil on linen
62 × 60 cm
CI/P 106
4/22
Oil on Linen
82 × 80 cm
CI/P 123
5/22
oil on linen
175 × 170 cm
6/22
oil on linen
180 × 175 cm
CI/P 101
7/22
Oil on Linen
112 × 108 cm
CI/P 136
8/22
oil on linen
120 × 118 cm
CI/P 92
oil on linen
100 × 97 cm
CI/P 94
9/22
oil on linen
125 × 123 cm
oil on linen
100 × 97 cm
CI/P 94
oil on linen
120 × 118 cm
C/P 93
10/22
oil on canvas
210 × 205 cm
CI/P 95
11/22
oil on canvas
240 × 232 cm
CI/P 64
12/22
oil on linen
162 × 160 cm
C/P 78
oil on linen
162 × 160 cm
CI/P 76
oil on linen
162 × 160 cm
CI/P 77
13/22
oil on linen
162 × 160 cm
CI/P 78
14/22
oil on oil paper, 217 × 111 cm (framed)
CI/D 21
15/22
oil on oil paper, 217 × 111 cm (framed)
CI/D 16
16/22
Watercolour on Arches 640 gsm HP
58 × 77 cm / 64 × 82 cm (framed)
CI/D 102
17/22
Watercolour on Arches 640 gsm HP
58 × 77 cm / 64 × 82 cm (framed)
CI/D 108
18/22
Watercolour on Arches 640 gsm HP
58 × 77 cm / 64 × 82 cm (framed)
CI/D 101
19/22
Corrugated board, gouache on Arches 600 gsm HP
63.5 × 83 cm (framed)
CI/ D 86
20/22
Corrugated board, gouache on Arches 600 gsm HP
63.5 × 83 cm (framed)
CI/D 82
21/22
Callum Innes
Sketch-Books, 2022-2023
Unique
charcoal on paper
19.1 × 15.7 cm each (closed)
19.1 × 90.5 each (open)
22/22
Masking tape on Hakuho Select Paper
59.5 × 50 cm (framed)
CI/D 98
Peter Hill
2022
There are approximately seventy works by Callum Innes in public and private collections across Australia and New Zealand. In addition to painting, Innes has collaborated on artist books with poets and writers including Colm Tóibín, and has undertaken monumental public art light projection projects.
Gisela Kuoni
June 2004
Im Englisch sprechenden Raum ist Callum Innes bekannter als in der Schweiz. Umso beachtenswerter ist die umfassende Ausstellung neuester Arbeiten des schottischen Künstlers in der Galerie Tschudi in Glarus. Sämtilche Exponate stammen aus den letzten sechs bis neun Monaten .
1995
Callum Innes belongs to a generation of British artists who, mindful of, yet uninhibited by, the achievements of painting in the past and recent rise of other media, have continued to explore the possibilities of paint on canvas.
Andrew Wilson
1993
Despite their apparent simplicity, the paintings of Callum Innes betray an ambitiousness of purpose.
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