Visual art, Previews and Alexander Kennedy

Alex Frost

10 Apr 2008

‘I was asked to do a solo exhibition at the Collins gallery for Glasgow international,’ says Glasgow-based sculptor Alex Frost, ‘but the idea of putting a group show together just seemed more interesting.’ Frost and Sorcha Dallas have brought together a…

Nick Evans and Tony Swain

14 Feb 2008

It seems Paul Nesbit can do no wrong at Inverleith House in the Botanic Gardens. The curator has a back catalogue of excellent exhibitions under his belt, having shown work by some of the most respected national and international artists. Following a…

Lotte Gertz

14 Feb 2008

PRINTING, PAINTING AND DRAWING Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Sat 1 Mar Narrative of sorts emerges through the manipulation of formal elements in the printed, painted, drawn and collaged works of Lotte Gertz. In this, her first exhibition at Mary Mary, the…

Spencer Sweeney

17 Jan 2008

PAINTING The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until Sat 23 Feb New York-based painter Spencer Sweeney’s art seems to be suffering from a personality crisis, with stylistic approaches, materials and assumed personas thrown into a big American Magimix…

Re-make/Re-model

17 Jan 2008

This exhibition brings together cross-generational artists who use performance as an integral part of their practice. The work on show examines the act of making and recording live actions, as well as presenting the two and three-dimensional objects…

Roman Signer

17 Jan 2008

A mini-retrospective of work by the Swiss artist. Signer’s sculptural installations and film work that records the straight-faced slapstick actions the artist has undertaken throughout his career. The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 27 Jan.

Gillespie, Kidd and Coia: Architecture 1956–1987

4 Jan 2008

A long overdue exhibition of the Scottish Modernist masters, this is the first major retrospective of the work of one of the UK’s most distinguished architecture practices. Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s imaginative approach to architecture resulted in a wide…

Roman Signer

4 Jan 2008

Selected by the artist for The Fruitmarket Gallery, this excellent exhibition provides both a snapshot of the Swiss artist’s current preoccupations and an insight into the themes and ideas that have inspired him throughout a long career. The works on…

Re-make/Re-model

4 Jan 2008

An exhibition of work by Linder, Sophie MacPherson, Babette Mangolte, Martin Soto Climent and Jimmy Roberts. The work on show deals with the debris of performance and performativity, highlights being sculptural work by Climent and a film of Trisha Brown…

Thomas Houseago

29 Nov 2007

SCULPTURE The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until Sat 5 Jan LA-based, Leeds-born Houseago makes his Glasgow debut at the Modern Institute with slashed and scraped figurative works, sculptures that amalgamate stylistic elements from Cubism…

The Openended Group: Moves

29 Nov 2007

FILM INSTALLATION CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 12 Jan In response to the CCA’s ethos of promoting electronic and digital work, the OpenEnded Group exhibits a series of ‘moving image’ works exploring the relationship between choreography, space and…

Convulsive Illustration

29 Nov 2007

An exhibition of work that creates a ‘creeping feeling of the sinister and scabrous... in an attempt to keep the conventions of commercial art at pox-ridden arm’s length’. Twelve artists exhibit their work, including Georg Barber, Silvia Battista, Arne…

Tom Phillips: A Humument

29 Nov 2007

An exhibition depicting how Phillips transformed an obscure Victorian novel (A Human Document by WH Mallock) into a postmodern masterpiece. A Humument is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential artist’s books of the last 50…

Radiance

15 Nov 2007

LIGHT INSTALLATION Various locations, Glasgow city centre, Fri 23–Sun 25 Nov As the nights draw in, Glasgow City Council is flooding the dark skies with light, filling the streets with large-scale light installations by some of the most successful…

Susanne Norregard Nielsen: Flowerbed

15 Nov 2007

An exhibition of photographs documenting the flowerbed Nielsen planted at St Andrews Royal Botanic Garden in 2004. The bed was planted with flowers that Mondrian drew and painted in the early part of his career. LAST CHANCE TO SEE. West Corridor…

Ilana Halperin: Towards Heilprin Land

15 Nov 2007

The Glasgow-based artist continues her examination of how her personal biography overlaps with the history, geography and geology of selected locations, creating mythologies that utilise a wide range of media to document these suggested…

Monika Sosnowska

18 Oct 2007

Polish-born, Warsaw-based Sosnowska brings 23 fantastical architectural scale models to the gallery, constructions that may or may not be finally realised. ‘It seems to me that what I do is somehow in opposition to what architecture stands for,’ says…

Alasdair Gray

18 Oct 2007

A compelling selection of drawings, prints and paintings by one of Scotland’s most successful authors and illustrators of the late 20th century. The work on display spans 50 years or more, and includes designs from some of the front covers of Gray’s…

David Rokeby

9 Aug 2007

The CCA continues its exploration of the relationship between technology and art, with the first major show and retrospective of Canadian-born artist David Rokeby. The exhibition brings together five of his award-winning installations, new media…

Picture perfect

1 Aug 2007

From international stars like Andy Warhol and Picasso to Turner Prize winners and home grown talent, Alexander Kennedy finds rich pickings in the Edinburgh Art Festival

Michael Craik

1 Aug 2007

Modernism isn’t going anywhere, it seems. Maybe we were too quick at dismissing it through prefixing the term with ‘post’. Deconstructive approaches to Modernism muddy the waters, reinforcing the notion that Modernism is more of an attitude, a pose.

Richard Long

3 Jul 2007

When art exited the gallery in the 1960s, the street outside became a theatre for performances and an arena for installations - a move that simultaneously questioned the sanctity of the art object and the white cube that protected it. Some artists opted…

Tender Scene: Group Show

3 Jul 2007

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION After a successful exhibition at Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice as part of the third leg of his 2005 Venice Biennale contribution, Alex Pollard exhibits his work again, taking over as curator at Stirling’s Changing Room…

Nan Hoover and Nina Könnemann

Sex, Art and Videotape

9 Apr 2007

Early experiments in film by artists remind us that the birth of psychoanalysis and cinema happened at almost exactly the same time, with surrealists adding hermetically sealed packages of poetic and suggestive images to narrative cinema.

Lorna Macintyre

Mary Mary, Glasgow, Sat 20 Jan-Fri 23 Feb

9 Jan 2007

INSTALLATION It’s advisable that when the figurative and the abstract meet they should do so in the clear empty spaces of the latter, otherwise the aesthetic object falls into the cheap embrace of anthropomorphism. The man-made material and the…