02 Nov Where to start
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Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present Callum Innes: Where to start, an exhibition of new works by
Scottish painter Callum Innes. This show marks Callum Innes’ first solo exhibition with the gallery
and will be on view from November 15, 2024, through January 9, 2025. The gallery will host a
reception for the artist on Friday, November 15, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Where To Start exhibits a series of major works by Callum Innes grappling with themes of time,
space, and fragility. Featuring work from his acclaimed Exposed Painting series, Innes’ alchemical
color process of layering paint and dissolving it with turpentine, reveals unpredictable and often
unreplicable colors onto canvas and wood. What appear to be works of monochrome and precision,
contain buried veils of pigmentation – traces of color emerge, change, and are obscured under layers
of painting and repainting. Marks of color twist over the sides of each work mirroring the way paint
spills onto the floors and studio walls during Innes’ process. The works expand into the spaces
around them both in process and upon completion. Likened to the shutter of a camera, Innes’
works of abstraction freeze a moment of time, the fateful moment when the process concludes, and
the painting stops.
Callum Innes was born in Edinburgh and currently works between Edinburgh and Oslo. Innes
studied Painting and Drawing at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, and did a postgraduate degree at
Edinburgh College of Art. In the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s, Innes began exhibiting in major
public galleries such as the ICA, London, and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh. Beginning his career as a figurative painter, Innes transitioned to abstract painting after
an experiment sinking an image into corrugated cardboard led to a desire to create work in which
material and image became one. He was the recipient of The Natwest Prize for Painting (1998), and
The Jerwood Prize for Painting (2002), and was shortlisted for The Turner Prize. He has shown
internationally in galleries and museums around the world including at the Guggenheim, New York;
Center Pompidou, Paris; the Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland; Kode Bergen Art Museum, Norway;
Fort Worth Museum, Texas; TATE, London; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and The
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Innes was the subject of a major one-person survey exhibition and
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