Reviews
The latest exhibitions, festivals and art shows reviewed by The Skinny’s art writers. You’ll find reviews of art exhibitions, analysis of artist and curators' choices, and expert insight on Scotland's best art exhibitions.
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Sonica: Laser Show @ Glue Factory
Following a four-week on-site residency, audiovisual performance artist Robin Fox brings his candidly titled Laser Show to the Glue Factory’s tank room... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Tales of Magical Realism Part 2 @ Tramway
Sven Werner’s participatory installation is the follow-up to his highly successful Tales of Magical Realism Part 1. It is an immersive embodiment ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
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The Turner Prize 2012
Back in Tate Britain this year after its sojourn to the Baltic, the Turner Prize features Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Remember Me @ Scotland Street School Museum
Considered by certain individuals to be a hive of paranormal activity, the perfectly preserved corridors of Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School are an ... Read more »| 20 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Enlightened Sound @ The Whisky Bond, 16 Nov
Entering the almost-bare warehouse room containing the installation by Steev Livingstone (Errors), called The Last Pigeons, the viewer is faced with two... Read more »| 17 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Ecstatic Arc @ Tramway
The premiere of Robbie Thomson’s new live performance work is a truly awesome mix of theatre, music and visual art. It's centerpiece is a Tesla coil mo... Read more »| 17 Nov 2012
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Sonica: Our Contemporaries @ Tramway
Our Contemporaries is dystopian sci-fi pared down to basic components. Mookyoung Shin’s futuristic nightmare mixes automation with bureaucracy. Rows ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Sandglasses @ Tramway
A minimalist concept masks a complex combination of media in Juste Janulyte’s Sandglasses. Four cellists are encapsulated within large tulle columns, h... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Palimpsest @ Tramway
Four robots, two artists and one large drawing space, illuminated on the floor. A projector in the ceiling casts images upon the floor and the artists respon... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
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Andrew Black and Tony Swain @ The Duchy
The Duchy’s annual pairing of artists at different stages of their career, Aereated Bread Company presents work by Andrew Black, a recent Painting and ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
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Ugo Rondinone @ Common Guild, Until 19 November
The first few sculptures in Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone's debut Scottish exhibition, primitive – hand-made birds cast in bronze, be... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
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Olivia Plender @ CCA
Showing at CCA, the third and final installment of Olivia Plender’s show Rise Early, Be Industrious, utilises drawing, installation and historical... Read more »| 17 Oct 2012 -
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Dieter Roth @ Fruitmarket Gallery
“Dieter was heavy on collecting everything and including everything,” begins Björn Roth in a video accompaniment to his father’s colle... Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
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Scotland + Venice: Critical Dialogues
What is a fallow year for Venice Art Biennale is the big blowout for the architecture world. But as you might expect, the work on show at the 13th Internatio... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
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Semi @ Rhubaba
It is a brave move to introduce an exhibition by quoting from Shelley's Ozymandias - ''Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!'' – but there is nothi... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012