~ v JULIAN GOTHE - BEAMS ARE GONNA FIND ME Sorcha Dallas Gallery. Glasgow. until Sat 18 Mar.
s ' ’ o
(2’ H {u i‘ r .r\ 1 ‘ .leti l. 5' " I t rr , j 1, t” ’ ,r L A: N} r
INSTALLATION DRAWING AND FILM . - . - , ' ' 1 .. ' ' Wilderness settin to urban de eneration. Like a arod 1,. :r w ,t .."~itt.na r' iv» 1 I new wonK SCOTLAND PROGRAMME - 9 9 D V - ‘ ‘ I .
a Of the Centre DUKB’S graphic video. i": if‘f .'.’ ‘lrS (it: "’1 *"3 .2 .113 ' ' '
Collective Gauery' Edinburgh. until Sat 4 Mar .. displays a derelict budding swallowed up bya series of TM: mum” ti L :x ° l" v industrial tubes in a style akin to an Xbox ‘Pipedream‘. Its :it at? ;‘.ii~» \iir teat in: w ‘
Shoebox theatre on a box-room scale perhaps - clarity on the projected screen looks impressive "‘ill' 'lw, 2 M w raw zit . ' ~ ‘
Alexander Stalmann’s commission for the second alongside the robust bass in the sound design. It is with .m a: j'lltf‘f"‘ll~’l :ii‘t: mt. i,: . -.
showing of New Work Scotland Programme lurks in the little coincidence that ‘Project 2501’ is the same name of dirtiw but .i 13’» an n '
corner of the first gallery like an unpacked installation. the artificial intelligence being that gained (utrh wry .s,r»,~, . w. t‘i“. xi"
Soap powder leaks from the edges, distended blocks of consciousness in the film Ghost in the Shell. Apparently
wood and layers of plastic bunch at the corners. A hum still being worked on too late to appear for the show’s
of purple fluorescence hangs at the back, in a faux opening, the endless-cycle video still has some glitches -
Northern Lights spectacle. The German artist’s material it stalls during DVD disc errors and refuses to allow the
wilderness, entitled ‘Always the Sun’, is no Caspar David video to continue to its conclusion where the industrial
Friedrich. pipes release the derelict building back to its normal
Stalman's three accompanying ‘storyboards’ are state. Technology, it seems, has a beautiful way of equally obtuse, furiously scribbled works tacked onto the undermining itself. surrounding walls at awkward heights in the dimly lit Capturing the balance between too much information
room. These untitled works tread an uneasy line between and giving enough to tease an audience is what both childish drawings and mescaline-induced scribbling. But artists struggle to cope with in their respective
their biggest catch is that they forgo the sculptural commissions. And though it might betray their relative
work's inclination to ambiguity and instead smack of an inexperience, these two ambitious Glasgow-based
urgent anxiety to over-describe his fabricated landscape. artists gather strength from being shown alongside each Will Duke's single work, video installation ‘Project other’s landscapes of desolate materials.
2501 ', shares Stalmann’s misanthropy. but transports the (lsla Leaver-Yap)
FILMS, DRAWINGS A? 'll‘J/«l " r“; Ill ll. Mill’t’l‘x,” ,8 KATY DOVE Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, until Sat 8 Apr
Contemporary mundane reality has buckled anti rent a illlllitil‘flhll or We, it seems. realitv is constantl; irieriiaterl b, t.'.vp-(iiirie'twi<.rtal YIN/1961. a'vi riiagir,;i- dimensions (.lisappeai'eri .‘Jith our optimism, \."~.r’hat t, .‘xhen [)(:lf,‘i:j,il’)ll tlatterr, at the landscape seems en‘ipt; and hostile. llltlli|{§(/i’)lll":’i£tl’l’)‘:l)£1ézlitlétlfl,if€l’,' forms rolled in. in gusts of Miroesoiie SUFF‘L‘EU'STYlI' Kat, [Jose's y,,oiis tira'.'./ii'(;', and animatiops [)f()‘.’l(l€3 this lllUCtlJltflle/l (trier: at tireairiliw; (glee
Something IlllDOSSllJi‘,’ uplifting breaks throtiriii in Dow/s HOW. fFUll‘ tin/lemma" bushes and through banks of clouds. but our ‘leeting feeling of ‘:l€1ll’,"i reviai'n, tethered to the all tor; tainiliar stasis ot the e.er‘,<ia, The llltl‘M, that acct/nipawr, Dove's Linpeoplerl epics hunts and throle like an ‘:l‘:’Lif|(, mm plan iv; (He/heart her fantastical compositions Lemming rxist—trir'iari lar‘iri‘mapef;
There is a hanri-niarte (ltléilli‘, to {IQHUH‘S a'twiatiori‘. :irirl (tram (gm “.iiul an ‘LLina'. 2004i. the glitches; and limitations of the materials aw: techimlpg, ’,";I:?:l.’; a sense of naivet‘,’ that is ‘.'.’Ql(,0ll‘.il‘i_{l. Felt-pert anti ‘5’,|S‘//‘> take ti e place of "rare rarefied materials anti a near S,‘."i£tr‘:5>lll(:l!’; “:artr," eat. The lll’).":lll‘:lll of both. With pure abstraction taking priorit, over the figtirati.r;. Freed from tire bag/gage of mystiCism. haIILiCinatiOns and subtle ra,rs becoriie an ever/(ta, (/CCurrehCe in Dove's work— Kandinsky is seCuiarised. his rneteiph,wsical claims. float oft. tearing __.---_-_.- _._,___,,__., traces in an expanding sky. «Alexander Kennedy
92 THE LIST 16 Feb—2 Mar 2006