Callum Innes – Tondos

Callum Innes, a Scottish painter born in 1962, has created abstract paintings in a rectilinear format for over three decades. In 2022, he introduced the tondo, a new form with historical resonances. This book explores Innes's tondo paintings, featuring carefully selected images and installation views of key exhibitions. Art historian Éric de Chassey traces Innes's encounters with the form and its progenitors in art history. Innes's breakthrough in the tondo format is firmly cemented in the pantheon of significant works rendered in this distinctive formation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 16 May 2024
Publisher: Anomie Publishing

Callum Innes, a renowned painter born in Scotland in 1962, has been creating his captivating abstract artworks in a rectilinear format for over three decades. In 2022, he introduced a new element to his repertoire: the tondo. This required mastering a set of technical and aesthetic challenges, as the tondo has a rich historical significance. This book, beautifully illustrated with carefully selected images of Innes's tondos and installation views of key exhibitions, explores how Innes has challenged traditional perceptions of shape and form to create dynamic and immersive visual experiences. Art historian Éric de Chassey's essay traces Innes's encounters with this form and its progenitors in the history of art, firmly cementing his breakthrough in the pantheon of significant works rendered in this distinctive formation. Callum Innes was born in Edinburgh in 1962 and currently lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Oslo, Norway. He studied drawing and painting at Grays School of Art from 1980-84 and completed a post-graduate degree at Edinburgh College of Art in 1985. Innes has had major exhibitions at the ICA London, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and the De Pont Museum in Tilburg. His critically acclaimed museum exhibition, From Memory, traveled throughout Europe and Australia from 2006-08. In 2012, he was commissioned by the Edinburgh Arts Festival to transform the Scottish capital's Regent Bridge with a changing sequence of colored light, and in 2016, he was the subject of a major retrospective survey exhibition and accompanying monograph, Ill Close My Eyes, at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg.

Weight: 1020g
Dimension: 257 x 284 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781910221600