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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ReviewsChristoph Büchel @ Tramway
If your taste runs to big, immersive, visceral work that swallows you whole, leads you through an unknown realm and spits you out, bewildered, shaken and sub... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Benny Merris: Bubble and Squeak
Benny Merris has been smoking it up in Amsterdam. He's been going through a hashish Renaissance, he tells me, and it shows. Each of the 19 paintings exhibite... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsSpring 2010 Exhibition @ Axolotl Gallery
The Axolotl Gallery holds a deceptively sugary appeal from Dundas Street; its bright purple shop front displays colourful, surreal paintings promising an arr... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
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Lost and Found @ Street Level Photoworks
Anyone who’s ever attempted to face GI’s opening weekend can attest to the number of shows which, when combined with the Saturday shoppers, can q... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsSusan Philipsz: Lowlands @ Clydeside Walkway
When Glasgow-born Philipsz stumbled upon a bunch of flowers marking a suicide by the River Clyde railings, she decided that this would be the perfect locatio... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
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Fiona Tan @ GOMA
Those who have witnessed Fiona Tan’s subtle, multi-layered and enthralling Disorient, representative of the Netherlands at 2009’s Venice Biennale... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010
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New Contemporaries
Now in its second year, the RSA’s graduate show learns fast. While 2009 marked a dramatic change of pace from the previous everyone’s-a-winner st... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
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Drinks Reception @ Quartermile
Is contemporary art depressed? Is it feeling disheartened, unfulfilled and forlorn? Is something missing? If the latest exhibition by ECA’s sculpture ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2010 -
ReviewsAlex Frost - The Connoisseurs @ DCA
On entering Alex Frost’s solo show at the DCA, the visitor is met with a mural covering the whole of one wall displaying the WiFi logo rendered in swim... Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
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Kill Your Value Judgements
If any members of the DCA crowd were excitedly looking forward to another year’s feast of experimental music from the justly renowned Kill Your Timid N... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
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Dromos @ Generator Projects
The Generator’s show Dromos takes as its lofty aim the creation of “a New Babylon of discovery” unconstrained by the rigid white cube. Inco... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
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Toby Paterson @ Fruitmarket Gallery
The open spaces of the Fruitmarket Gallery afford a pleasant luxury, the freedom to explore and to wander from one piece of art to the next within their uniq... Read more »| 26 Feb 2010 -
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Julian Oliver @ Hannah Maclure Centre
For any gallery-goer justifiably wary of safe, cutesy painting, the process behind Julian Oliver’s solo show Back Buffer reveals a welcome hyper-violen... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
ReviewsPublic Image @ The Cooper Gallery
The Cooper Gallery’s new group show Public Image takes as its theme the ambiguous relationship between ‘us’ and images. Even the greenest o... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Facing East @ Manchester Art Gallery
Even though it’s Chinese New Year and Chinese lanterns adorn Albert Square, Manchester City Gallery’s newest exhibition of work from East Asia is... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010