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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ReviewsBedwyr 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 -
ReviewsAhmed & 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 -
ReviewsPlan 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 -
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Karen Cunningham @ Collective, until 24 Nov
Contemporary art’s ongoing project to wean itself off philosophy and onto newer disciplines such as anthropology seems to be progressing well, particul... Read more »| 18 Oct 2013 -
ReviewsÂngela Ferreira @ Stills, until 27 Oct
Ângela Ferreira’s show Political Cameras is dominated by a number of fashionable structures; skeletal forms constructed from stripped wood adorne... Read more »| 02 Oct 2013 -
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Andrea Büttner @ Tramway, until 13 Oct
Increasingly viewed as a hotbed for extremists, crazies, perverts and toxic small-mindedness, organised religion has some serious PR problems. Cleaning up it... Read more »| 25 Sep 2013 -
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Richard Mosse @ Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Upon entering the Irish pavilion on the bank of the Grand Canal, you are met with three monumental images of luscious jungle-scape, the foliage unnervingly r... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
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Vadim Zakharov @ Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Curated by Udo Kittelmann, Vadim Zakharov’s ambitious work focuses on the Greek myth of the impregnation of Danaë. When her father’s death i... Read more »| 12 Sep 2013 -
ReviewsThere Will Be New Rules Next Week @ DCA, until 23 Sep
Running in conjunction with the first ever Print Festival Scotland, There Will Be New Rules Next Week celebrates all things print. The show centres around Si... Read more »| 10 Sep 2013