Manfred Pernice @ DCA
By . Published 12 April 2011
There’s a freestanding structure in the middle of the DCA’s main gallery. Rather crudely assembled from chipboard, each of its quadrants is a different colour. Entitled Tutti, it’s decorated with...
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Strange Loops @ Generator Projects
By . Published 29 March 2011Not often will you find a gallery deviating quite so boldly from the traditional group show format. With the Craig Mulholland-curated exhibition Strange Loops at Generator Projects, most aspects remain...
RSA New Contemporaries
By . Published 28 March 2011Now in its third year, RSA New Contemporaries brings Scotland’s latest art graduates to the attention of the gallery-going public. Evolving from their annual student show, this exhibition of almost...
Christian Newby @ +44 141
By . Published 25 March 2011Imagine you were to inhabit the pictorial space of a black and white glaze of the 1950s pottery range Homemaker. If so, you’ll have some notion of what to expect...
Satellite @ East Kilbride Arts Centre
By . Published 23 March 2011The five artists that make up the collective Satellite visit the remote plains of Daer reservoir in South Lanarkshire. A small gallery in out-of-the-way East Kilbride Arts Centre hosts the...
Totems of Today
By . Published 23 March 2011After hosting artists from Ironbbratz studios for its first few shows, Studio 41 sets out to re-invigorate Glasgow’s curating scene. Will Nothing Be Understood By the Totems of Today? unites...
John Cage @ The Hunterian Museum and Gallery
By . Published 18 March 2011John Cage is primarily known for his work as an avant-garde pioneer of experimental music, perhaps his most notorious composition being his 1952 ‘silent’ piece, 4’33”. However, during the 1980s...
Sue Tompkins and Claude Cahun @ Inverleith House
By . Published 11 March 2011Sue Tompkins' work seems made for the space. It sits silent and thinking in the domestic cathedral heart of the Botanical Gardens that is Inverleith House. Indeed, her text-based performances,...
Anni Albers @ Dovecot Studios
By . Published 11 March 2011Exhibitions that display a seminal artist alongside the works they have since inspired always make for interesting fare, and with an artist as revolutionary as Anni Albers this inspiration is...
White Knight @ Collective Gallery
By . Published 04 March 2011The gallery space has always implicitly challenged the meaning of true communal property. Alex Gross and Anna Mields’ film, Farbenlehre, at The Collective explores this idea explicitly. Shots pan over...
Jean-Marc Bustamante @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
By . Published 28 February 2011Bustamante’s first exhibition in Scotland marries two strands of his career – his works of photography and sculpture from 1978-97 and his sculptures and paintings from 2008-10. The result of...
Craig Murray-Orr @ Ingleby Gallery
By . Published 25 February 2011Before viewing Craig Murray-Orr’s solo show at the Ingleby gallery, there is a fact everyone must know: Murray-Orr was born in New Zeland, but has spent two thirds of his...
Harun Farocki @ CCA
By . Published 21 February 2011There were a few who thought the CCA a lost cause. A series of obscure shows that persistently fell short of what Glasgow’s foremost contemporary art institution should be offering...
August Sander @ The Dean Gallery
By . Published 18 February 2011Not content with just one exhibition of great German art in Edinburgh – that of Rosmarie Trockel at the Talbot Rice Gallery – The Dean Gallery presents us a second....
Rosemarie Trockel @ Talbot Rice
By . Published 03 February 2011Talbot Rice Gallery eschews Rosemarie Trockel's multi-faceted work in film, sculpture and painting and begins with a meticulous survey of her considerable use of drawing, collage and book drafts. This...
SALONVERT @ Embassy, Until 30 Jan
By . Published 28 January 2011‘Eclectic’ is an apt description of SALONVERT at the Embassy. Like all members shows, it offers an array of medium and messages. Oil paintings, drawings, textiles, prints, sculptures and video...
Hannah James @ Rhubaba
By . Published 27 January 2011Hannah James’s work functions beneath a guise of opacity. Her oeuvre consists of deliberately bad camera angles and hazy images. The past year of her practice has, however, seen screens...
Window to the West: The Rediscovery of Highland Art @ City Art Centre
By . Published 27 January 2011Installing a contemporary art exhibition that self-professedly aims to “rediscover highland art” is certainly a risky strategy. After all, when so much of the Scottish cultural legacy has been concerned...
John Goto @ Edinburgh Printmakers
By . Published 26 January 2011John Goto’s exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers may be small but it certainly evokes an intense response from the viewer. His collection of Mosaics, inspired by the Israeli attack on...
Living Today @ Mackintosh Gallery, GSA
By . Published 26 January 2011Sporting a title of almost limitless possibility, the group show Living Today at the Mackintosh Museum assembles works by contemporary artists who explore aspects of the society they live in,...
