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Douglas Gordon

The dark arts

(5 stars)22 Nov 2006

Just days before Halloween, the exterior lights of the Royal Scottish Academy were switched from white to red, casting a warning beacon to the city that something dramatic and uneasy was afoot. Five huge black posters were unfurled over the façade…

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Peter McCaughy

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas

(3 stars)12 Oct 2006

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND INSTALLATION This slick little show continues the annual ‘outing’ of the talents of GSA staff members. The exhibition is pared down this year, which means that there is space to consider the objects, enough room to look for…

Dalziel + Scullion - The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Sat 7

28 Sep 2006

INSTALLATION The first major exhibition in the refurbished Kelvingrove will be an artistic collaboration of international standing: visuals from Dalziel + Scullion and music by Craig Armstrong. For ‘The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer’, Dalziel…

Adel Abdessemed: Trust Me

Adel Abdessemed: Trust Me

22 May 2008

A final opportunity to see this exhibition of work by the controversial video and installation artist Abdessemed. Works such as ‘Also Sprach Allah’ reflect the ways in which politics and religion infiltrate life on the street, exposing some ugly truths…

Adel Abdessemed: Trust Me

Adel Abdessemed: Trust Me

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

REVIEW VIDEO, DRAWING AND INSTALLATION The Common Guild, Glasgow until Sat 7 Jun One of Adel Abdessemed’s videos was rejected by the Gi’s committee for this exhibition due to its excessive violence. This further cemented his reputation as an artist…

Enrico David

Enrico David: Ultra Paste

(2 stars)10 Apr 2008

INSTALLATION, SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 10 May It’s hard to believe the ejaculatory inference of the title of this exhibition is unintended, because the whole purpose of ‘Ultra Paste’ (the show’s key work) seems…

Doggerfisher

GROUP SHOW, Doggerfisher

(3 stars)13 Mar 2008

Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, until Sat 26 Apr Doggerfisher’s annual group show brings together work by recent graduates and more established artists. Refreshingly, the gallery unites the six artists via an interest in formal concerns with space and…

Sally Osborn: OH HA HMM

23 Aug 2007

Site-specific artist Sally Osborn presents an installation using a range of seemingly disparate materials and processes including cast wax, recycled timber, fabric, mirror and a living cat. Glasgow Sculpture Studio, Glasgow, until Sat 15 Sep.

Silicone Remembers Carbon

(4 stars)23 Aug 2007

In the first ten minutes of experiencing David Rokeby’s work at Glasgow’s CCA, I am ‘taken’, ‘dismayed’, ‘intrigued but resistant’, ‘troubled’, ‘voyeuristic’ and then ‘convinced’. So the randomly generated adjectives tell me, words that appear floating…

Fiona Jardine: Moltke’s Eye

(2 stars)8 May 2007

INSTALLATION Although Fiona Jardine claims to be influenced by everything from TS Eliot’s high literary Modernism to the pagan iconography of the Green Man (via Francis Rabelais, Brett Easton Ellis, Weiner Werkstatte, and Dagobert Peche among many…

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