Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945) arrives overflowing to the Quarry, where starting this Friday they are dedicating a retrospective to him with some sixty works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs. One of them is a gigantic sculpture that can be seen in the building's courtyard. Scully has to deal with a stream of journalists and is eager to start conducting interviews. "The importance of art is immeasurable; it is the opposite of evil in the world, of corruption and wars, which are the consequence," says Scully, best known for his abstract paintings where he combines color fields as if they were musical notes, and for interventions such as the of the Romanesque monastery of Santa Cecilia de Montserrat. He also believes that art has a deep spiritual charge and a transformative power: "My ambition, my destiny, is to bring a form of spirituality to the street, to reduce the distance between abstract art and life," he says.