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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ReviewsMan of the Year @ CCA, until 26 Jan
Man of the Year at CCA brings together two excellent video artists: Glasgow-based Henry Coombes – perhaps one of the most interesting artists working i... Read more »| 16 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsSonica 2013: Whispers @ Tramway
The title Whispers suggests a calmness and quietness that is to be found in Rob van Rijswijk and Jeroen Strijbos' sculptural installation at Sonica. The soun... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsLouise Bourgeois @ Fruitmarket, until 23 Feb
220 framed paper-works hang side by side on the ground floor of the Fruitmarket. This intense collection from Louise Bourgeois’ Insomnia Drawings forms... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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Dennis Reinmüller @ Summerhall, until 22 Nov
Seinfeld, the TV sitcom based loosely on the ‘real’ lives of its writers is often cited as ‘a show about nothing.’ Dennis J. Reinm&uu... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsWitches and Wicked Bodies @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Witches and Wicked Bodies is an incredible exhibition that showcases the evolution of the witch, through five hundred years of artistic expression. Drawings,... Read more »| 22 Nov 2013 -
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Sonica 2013: Picture Window
In November, as part of Sonica, shop fronts in Glasgow became impromptu gallery spaces for the public art project Picture Window. Five venues welcomed a rang... Read more »| 20 Nov 2013
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Bedwyr Williams @ Welsh Pavilion, Venice Biennale
There’s something eccentrically humungous about the garden observatory cum shed that's been ceremoniously dropped into a small Venetian chapel by W... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
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With: @ Rogue Studios, Manchester
From artists Nicola Dale, Julie Del’Hopital, Annie Harrison, Sarah Sanders, Jenny Steele and Jacqueline Wylie, With: is the result of a series of discu... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
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Ahmed & Carpenter: Aversion Management @ Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space, Manchester, until 6 Oct
Loss aversion theory and target-based pay scales are more akin to a sales environment than a gallery, but, for Aversion Management, Ahmed & Carpenter hav... Read more »| 29 Oct 2013 -
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Plan for a Ruin @ Islington Mill, Salford, until 9 Nov
Islington Mill’s fifth floor is vast and doesn’t conform to traditional notions of gallery space. Windows are boarded up in preparation for the e... Read more »| 29 Oct 2013 -
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Jeremy Deller: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air @ Manchester Art Gallery, until 19 Jan
Like the lines of a family tree, Jeremy Deller uses artworks, objects and historical accounts to create a personal view of the cultural, sociological and tec... Read more »| 29 Oct 2013 -
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I Want To Be Your Dog @ Glue Factory
The blurb for I Want To Be Your Dog proclaims it to be ‘an exhibition that isn’t about anything in particular.’ With a star-studded line-up... Read more »| 28 Oct 2013 -
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The Narrators @ Walker Art Gallery/The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, until 16 Mar 2014, and The Royal Standard, Liverpool, until 17 Nov 2013 Read more »| 28 Oct 2013 -
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Mounira al Sohl/Sarah Forrest @ CCA, until 10 Nov
This ‘double solo show’ sees two female artists take their departure from two male-authored classics. Taking centre-stage in the largest gallery,... Read more »| 23 Oct 2013 -
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There Is No Rewind @ Talbot Rice
Within the darkened Neoclassical interior of the Georgian gallery a single projector screen stands before a scattering of candlelit tables. It shows the fami... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013