Visual art and Issue 565

Christine Borland: Preserves

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 28 Jan 2

6 Dec 2006

INSTALLATION In Kos, Greece, there is a tree that stands in front of the Castle of Knights. Apparently planted by eminent physician Hippocrates, the town’s locals optimistically put it at about 2400 years old, and its frailty has generated a reliance…

Review of the year

Art editor Alexander Kennedy looks back at the yea

11 Dec 2006

It’s difficult to have a balanced opinion about a year where all the big names came back to roost in the large galleries and museums in Scotland, and what is usually referred to vaguely as ‘up and coming’ work by younger artists was mostly unimpressive.

Hitlist

The best exhibitions

11 Dec 2006

Douglas Gordon - Superhumanatural A major retrospective of one of Scotland’s most internationally successful artists. The various exhibitions around the city bring together Gordon’s video works, installations, film projects and text pieces that have…

Glasgow School of Art Postgrad Fashion Masters

Glasgow styles better

11 Dec 2006

Eley Kishimoto, Julien Macdonald and Matthew Williamson all trained in textile design before they began putting together fashion collections. GSA’s postgraduate fashion Masters is one of the only textile-based fashion design courses in the country, and…

Deuces ex Machina

11 Dec 2006

Merging the theatrical term ‘deus ex machina’ with the game of double solitaire called deuces, Deuces ex Machina plays on the idea of artists as god-like creators who re-create the world within their own contexts. NY artists include Jaishri Abichandani…

Off the Wall

11 Dec 2006

A major new exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, highlighting some of the gallery’s impressive recent acquisition of work that uses the floor as its plinth or works that hang from the ceiling. Artists involved include Martin Creed…

Friedrich

11 Dec 2006

An exhibition by a group of artists using Casper David Friedrich's darkly Romantic landscapes as subject matter. Artists include Marcus Amm, Helene Appel, Eva Berendes, Ellen Gronemeyer Alex Heim, Karin Ruggaber and Nicole Wermers.

Northern City - Between Light and Dark

Light after the Enlightenment

6 Dec 2006

It’s easy to locate the source of the schizophrenic nature of Edinburgh - a city with a valley and a scarring train line running right through its heart. This rocky gully acts as a metaphorical and geographical boundary, a symbolic line barring the city…

Catherine Sullivan

An exhibition of two new works by LA-based artist

6 Dec 2006

INTERVIEW Alexander Kennedy Could you tell us about the work on show at the CCA? Catherine Sullivan ‘Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land’ (2003), which is a five channel projection work short on 16mm film and shown on video, and ‘The Resuscitation of…

Planting the Tele - Group Show

Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 13 Jan 2007

6 Dec 2006

MIXED MEDIA How many artists does it take to make a good group show? One could opt for a witty retort or just say it right out: ten. Planting the Tele brings together a host of art workers in an exhibition curated by Glasgow-based artist Haley…