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10 Oct 2006
I’m sitting in front of a blank screen, worrying about writing a piece on Douglas Gordon. I’m clear what I want to say: I hope to persuade sceptics and wavering readers that Gordon is one of the most interesting artists working anywhere in the world.
11 Oct 2006
PAINTING A carved frieze high on the exterior of the Corn Exchange building shows the stages between planting and harvesting grain and its eventual route to market. The exuberant quasi-Baroque narrative is populated by putti-esque figures - small…
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…
17 Oct 2006
Callum Innes - From Memory An excellent exhibition of abstract canvases painted by the Edinburgh-born artist. The paintings demonstrate a solid awareness of the history of abstract art, drawing on the best elements of abstract expressionism, post…
16 Oct 2006
Is there a place for High Modernist Art in Scotland? Was there ever? ‘New York stole the idea of Modern art’, we are told hyperbolically by various writers, ‘and Scotland got left with the Scottish Colourists and their ilk.’
FILM INSTALLATION The new exhibition The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer by Dalziel + Scullion at Kelvingrove continues their use of a minimal, ‘hands off’ approach to whichever medium they employ. This attitude is one of the most successful aspects…
INSTALLATION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM Migratory Projects, by Australian artist Andrew Sunley Smith, loosely explores migration and survival, via records of journeys through Australia. Along with documentary photographs, items from the journeys are…
SCULPTURE Glasgow-based sculptor Nick Evans was the fourth artist to be awarded Tate St Ives artist in residence. Steven Cairns caught up with him before the opening of his four-month solo show to talk about his work, its developments and working in…
INSTALLATION As you enter the gloomy Dennistoun flat, the big band music of ‘Tap Your Troubles Away’ from Mack and Mabel rings out. A small circle showing dancing legs and feet is projected on a screen, as though we are peeping through a hole, but…
Visiting a gallery in Berlin recently, I arrived at an artist-led space, which, despite supposedly being open for an hour, was still closed. After strolling around and returning two hours later they were just opening shop, only to discover that their…
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