The work was exhibited at Callum Innes first solo exhibition at the gallery, titled Darker than Blue, in September 2024.

The artist presents 13 new large and medium sized paintings and a series of eight works on paper.

Abstraction and layering, colour and removal. Callum Innes's artistic practice consists of several steps, long preparation times that evoke chromatic atmospheres.

His paintings are luminous geometries in which black or white oil paint alternates with bright, striated colours, from blue to purple, from yellow to red. Works that starting from the same rigorous approach achieve a wide range of colour effects in which the depth of shades can be perceived.

This work is part of th Exposed Paintings, square-shaped paintings on linen.

Exposed Paintings are created in a series through a slow and intense process of layering of oil paint applied to linen canvas, which is then covered with black paint. The work is now hidden under a dark layer that is partially removed through numerous washings with turpentine, which dissolve the paint and leave behind the effect of streaked hues. This process is repeated several times, alternating fresh colour applications with those of the solvent which erases them. The part of the canvas that remain black is then painted with another colour, creating a bright and changing surface.

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