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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ReviewsStrange Loops @ Generator Projects
Not often will you find a gallery deviating quite so boldly from the traditional group show format. With the Craig Mulholland-curated exhibition Strange Loop... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
ReviewsRSA New Contemporaries
Now in its third year, RSA New Contemporaries brings Scotland’s latest art graduates to the attention of the gallery-going public. Evolving from their ... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
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Christian Newby @ +44 141
Imagine 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... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
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Satellite @ East Kilbride Arts Centre
The 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... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
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Totems of Today
After hosting artists from Ironbbratz studios for its first few shows, Studio 41 sets out to re-invigorate Glasgow’s curating scene. Will Nothing Be Un... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
ReviewsJohn Cage @ The Hunterian Museum and Gallery
John Cage is primarily known for his work as an avant-garde pioneer of experimental music, perhaps his most notorious composition being his 1952 ‘silen... Read more »| 18 Mar 2011
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Sue Tompkins and Claude Cahun @ Inverleith House
Sue 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. I... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
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Anni Albers @ Dovecot Studios
Exhibitions that display a seminal artist alongside the works they have since inspired always make for interesting fare, and with an artist as revolutionary ... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
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White Knight @ Collective Gallery
The gallery space has always implicitly challenged the meaning of true communal property. Alex Gross and Anna Mields’ film, Farbenlehre, at The Collect... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
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Jean-Marc Bustamante @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
Bustamante’s first exhibition in Scotland marries two strands of his career – his works of photography and sculpture from 1978-97 and his sculptu... Read more »| 28 Feb 2011 -
ReviewsCraig Murray-Orr @ Ingleby Gallery
Before 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 spen... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
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Harun Farocki @ CCA
There 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 i... Read more »| 21 Feb 2011 -
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August Sander @ The Dean Gallery
Not content with just one exhibition of great German art in Edinburgh – that of Rosmarie Trockel at the Talbot Rice Gallery – The Dean Gallery pr... Read more »| 18 Feb 2011 -
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Rosemarie Trockel @ Talbot Rice
Talbot Rice Gallery eschews Rosemarie Trockel's multi-faceted work in film, sculpture and painting and begins with a meticulous survey of her considerable us... Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
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SALONVERT @ Embassy, Until 30 Jan
‘Eclectic’ is an apt description of SALONVERT at the Embassy. Like all members shows, it offers an array of medium and messages. Oil paintings, d... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011