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Visual art and Issue 592

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Review of the year - visual art

Review of the year - visual art

13 Dec 2007

In a year that’s brought the best work by Picasso and Warhol to our doors, this has otherwise been a relatively quiet one for Scottish visual art. Everybody got on with what they did best. In the capital the first Edinburgh Art Festival took place under…

Weirding and the Uncanny

Weirding and the Uncanny

(3 stars)13 Dec 2007

Curated by Glasgow School of Art MFA student Levi Haines, and featuring contributors from GSA, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh’s Embassy Gallery and Haines’ native Portland, Oregon, the show is tightly-packed and busy. It’s impossible to retain some…

Open

Open

(3 stars)13 Dec 2007

Inviting 35 international MFA students from Edinburgh College of Art to contribute to this group show, on the proviso that their work is no more than 30cm in width by 200cm in height might be more to do with the limited space available in the Corn…

Thomas Houseago, A Million Miles Away

Thomas Houseago, A Million Miles Away

(3 stars)13 Dec 2007

It's always suspect to examine the forgotten ‘primitive’ memory of the figurative in Modernism – to return to Modernism's repressed, barely formed ‘wild urges’. When such an attempt is filtered through an ironic, neo-expressionist approach, it’s even…

Moves

Moves

13 Dec 2007

This exhibition by the New York-based Openended Group, whose members are Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser, explores the moving image. It includes three major works: ‘Pedestrian’, a five screen premiere of ‘Forest’ and new commission from…

Carol Rhodes

Carol Rhodes

13 Dec 2007

The largest survey of Rhodes’ paintings to date, this exhibition covers the past 15 years of her career, exploring the artist’s distinctive approach to landscape and intense investigation into her medium. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art…

Group show: Re-make/Re-model

(3 stars)13 Dec 2007

Contemporary art curators and gallery owners no longer merely show work because it’s good but because it somehow justifies itself through weighty themes and explication. This is art’s loss. The exhibition of work by Linder, Sophie MacPherson, Babette…

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