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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ReviewsStudio Projects 22 & 23 @ Market Gallery
The two concurrent studio projects at Market Gallery this autumn address how we represent reality. There is something of the slavish will to reproduce our su... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsRobert Barry: Words and Music @ The Common Guild
It’s perhaps no coincidence that The Common Guild, housed in a building owned by Douglas Gordon, has decided to exhibit Robert Barry, one of Gordon&rsq... Read more »| 20 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsSara MacKillop and Mary Redmond @ DCA
A sculptor presents a solo show in each of the DCA’s two galleries for this intriguing double-header. Sara MacKillop and Mary Redmond’s displays ... Read more »| 15 Sep 2010 -
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Tela Vuota @ Zizzi
Sometimes, while eating dinner, one might listen to music. Whole families are known to eat meals in front of the telly. Few get the opportunity to dine at th... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
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Down Over Up @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re missing something? Like the punch line of a joke you just don’t understand, and you’re the only one... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
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Staged @ City Observatory
The title of Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth’s new Edinburgh Festival commission might suggest a work that is rather spectacular. ‘Staged’ ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010
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Martin Creed: Ballet Work No. 1020 @ Traverse Theatre
Calling this work a ballet is misleading. There are some ballet dancers who do a few ballet moves but otherwise the piece transgresses the form’s other... Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
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Julie Roberts @ Talbot Rice
On the surface, the exhibition title – Child – seems solely to describe Julie Robert’s subject matter: kitsch and almost fashiona... Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsNefertiti: New Works by John Squire
Working out of a converted barn seven days a week, John Squire made a point not to listen to music while painting. Quite ironic considering that he is arguab... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
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FIELD: By Means of Matter @ Generator Projects
Field is a London-based artists’ collective united by circumstance and a common interest in space and materiality. This eight-strong unit journeyed fro... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
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Sideshow @ Filmhouse
Torsten Lauschmann’s Sideshow is a performance work that continues in the same experimental vein as his currently exhibited Patchwork Cinema Compilatio... Read more »| 05 Jul 2010 -
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Muscle Milk @ Project Rooms
Rachel McLean and Diane Edwards’ video uses the format of an informercial. It advertises a protein supplement designed for bodybuilders called Muscle M... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
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Johan Grimonprez @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
Brace yourself; Johan Grimonprez’s new film is a lot to take in. Like his previous one, dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, which combined excerpts from television new... Read more »| 21 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsThey Do Things Differently There @ Talbot Rice
Walk into any home and you will be sure to find ‘stuff’; pictures, furniture, one or two ill-advised china dolls. Each of these objects will have... Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
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The Gloaming @ Transmission Gallery
Rarely is an art exhibition so unsettling. A tree branch fastened to mechanical objects of indiscernible origin flails out at the darkness. Backed into a cor... Read more »| 09 Jun 2010