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Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy

(5 stars)24 Apr 2008

FILM, PERFORMANCE AND PAINTING Washington Garcia, Glasgow, until Sun 27 Apr New-York based Kalup Linzy is more Vaginal Davis than a ‘Paris is Burning’ starlet, more Judy la Bruce (Bruce’s alter-ego) than Hedwig. But it cannot be denied that all of…

Group Show: Run 'Run'

Group Show: Run 'Run'

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

SCULPTURE, FILM AND DRAWING The Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, until Sat 3 May There has always been an indubitable relationship between art and science. A charcoal mark made on a cave wall is the result of various scientific…

EJ Major

EJ Major: Try to do things we all can understand

(4 stars)10 Apr 2008

PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINTS AND FILM Street Level, Glasgow, until Sat 10 May Photographs capture nothing. Portraits are even more successful at framing the absence at the core of subjectivity and how this can be signified through the image. This is neither as…

CCA

Let Me Show You Some Things: The Magic Lantern, Robert Orchardson and Sarah Tripp

(4 stars)13 Mar 2008

This collaborative installation brings together a large collection of films previously shown at The Magic Lantern (an independent film night at the CCA), a new film by Sarah Tripp and sculptures by Robert Orchardson. The short film format is ideally…

Feral Kingdom

Feral Kingdom

(2 stars)18 Oct 2007

DRAWING, PAINTING, FILM AND SCULPTURE CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 10 Nov There seems to be little or no relationship between the works showing at Feral Kingdom in the CCA – all conceptual and aesthetic decisions seem almost arbitrary. It is true that…

Roderick Buchanan: Histrionics

(4 stars)8 May 2007

FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY. The new work by Glasgow-based artist Roderick Buchanan on show at GoMA forces the viewer to face the anti-Christian hatred that some Catholics and Protestants still revel in in Scotland. His work is a response to the sectarian…

Never Still

CCA, Glasgow, Fri 16 Feb

(3 stars)27 Feb 2007

FILM Never Still marked the first public art event sponsored by Map magazine, and brought together work by a host of respected international artists who primarily use film (video or digital) as their medium. The event highlighted some of the problems…

Black Sun

(3 stars)18 Sep 2006

French artist, documentary filmmaker and author Hugues de Montalembert describes his life after he was attacked in his apartment in New York and blinded with paint stripper. This is less the story of an artist coming to terms with his blindness (and all…

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