Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Overleaf, by Callum Innes at Château La Coste, presented in the Renzo Piano–designed gallery. Bringing together recent paintings from his ongoing Resonance series in conversation with two monumental works from his celebrated Exposed Painting series, the exhibition underscores Innes’s mastery of process, materiality, and restraint.
For over three decades, Innes has pursued an exploration of paint’s potential for both revelation and erasure. His distinctive practice involves the repeated application and subsequent removal of pigment with turpentine, a process that yields luminous surfaces poised between control and chaos, order and dissolution. Each work embodies an exquisite tension between presence and absence, fullness and void—a painterly equilibrium that defines Innes’s singular visual language.
Overleaf reflects Innes’s enduring commitment to the poetics of subtraction—an act of uncovering that is as generative as it is reductive. His paintings invite
sustained looking, revealing their depth and rhythm slowly, like memory surfacing through layers of time.
In the Resonance series, Innes extends this dialogue through layered chromatic fields in which color seems to vibrate from within, creating a quiet luminosity that draws the viewer into a contemplative state. The Exposed Paintings, conversely, reveal the physical traces of their making: broad bands of pigment partially dissolved to expose the underlayer, reveal the ghosts of previous gestures. Installed amid the architectural precision and natural light of Piano’s Provençal gallery, these works engage in a powerful dialogue between painting, space, and perception.
For information on the exhibition, please visit chateau-la-coste.com
For inquiries, please email Cecile Panzieri at Cecile@skny.com
Image caption: Callum Innes, Exposed Painting Quinacridone Gold, 2025, Oil on Linen, 102 x 100 cm © Callum Innes Courtesy: the artist and Sean Kelly, New York