Visual art, Issue 668

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Borders-based artist James Hugonin's network of coloured grids

12 Jan 20113 stars

Quietly insistent solidity and strength to Hugonin’s minimalism

Music and movement is at the heart of this display of eight works by the Borders-based artist to mark his 60th birthday. Identical in scale and scope, each canvas painstakingly maps out an interlocking network of coloured brick-shaped grids that dance…

Six architects put forward vision for V & A at Dundee

8 Oct 2010

Steve Holl, REX, Kengo Kuma, Delugan Meissl, Snohetta and Sutherland Hussey images on display

The V & A at Dundee aims to create an iconic building on the city’s waterfront that can house world-class travelling and permanent art and design exhibitions. Six renowned architects – Steve Holl, REX, Kengo Kuma, Delugan Meissl, Snohetta and Sutherland…

Antony Gormley - One and Other

6 Oct 20103 stars

(Jonathan Cape) For 100 days last year, 2400 chosen people plonked themselves atop the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square and had an hour to express pretty much anything they wished. So, we had one person delivering a list of apologies for all the…

Nick Evans: Anti-Autonome

6 Oct 20103 stars

Figures emerge into various asanas – the plaster forms bend and twist into the momentary pose of a fish, a mermaid, figures fornicating, seated, running and riding. These sculptures are bold, solid, pure white, amorphous, the seams of their construction…

Liana Moran at Central Station

6 Oct 2010

Liana Moran graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2010 with a BA Honours in Drawing and Painting. Her current work looks into modern technology within mass communication: she’s interested in the notion that people nowadays have a fear of not being…

Scottish artists' films mark Commonwealth Games' move from Delhi to Glasgow

29 Sep 2010

Henry Coombes Red Palmer In the Black Gnat factory near Thomson’s Falls in Kenya, 8000ft above sea level, local women tie traditional Scottish trout flies to be exported to British fly fishing market. With names like Red Palmer, Zulu and Grouse and…

Titanic: Honour & Glory

29 Sep 2010

New exhibition dedicated to the ill-fated luxury liner

This new exhibition dedicated to the ill-fated luxury liner showcases the largest private collection of Titanic artefacts in Scotland, including some very rare pieces from the ship itself as well props and costumes from the 1997 blockbuster movie. Items…

(hi)STORY: Viewing the Old Town from Hermione’s window

9 Sep 20103 stars

Art and architecture meet philosophy and psychiatry from Klas Hyllen

Art and architecture meet philosophy and psychiatry in Klas Hyllen’s well-researched body of work, beautifully presented within SCHOP’s small gallery – size is unimportant when the viewer is confronted with complex theories and varying 2D works and…