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■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE The Essence of Beauty: 500 Years of Italian Art Fri 6 Apr–Sun 12 Aug. Italian art.
✽✽ FREE Richard Wright Fri 20 Apr–Sat 23 Jun. Works on paper.
Part of GI.
FREE Sense Scotland: It is is it Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May, daily 11am–5pm in the Kelvingrove Community Space. Work by young artists. Part of GI. ■ KENDALL KOPPE GALLERY Suite 1–2, 6 Dixon Street, 07969 403472. Normal opening hours Wed–Sat noon–6pm; extended opening hours during GI, daily 11am–6pm.
DEATH BECOMES HER Talitha Kotzé looks at the work of Teresa Margolles, which is endlessly influenced by social and political events
Mexican artist Teresa Margolles arrived in Scotland for her three-month Glasgow Sculpture Studios residency just as the riots kicked off in England last year. She travelled down to pick up debris from the aftermath, which will be used in her exhibition for GI 2012. It is with the remnants and material fragments of social crisis that Margolles tells her stories.
She will also present a reworking of the photographic archive of Ciudad Juárez-based photographer Luis Alvarado whose 4000 images she recovered when they were thrown out on the street. The city’s drug wars mean that it is one of the most violent places in the world. The images capture the vibrant nightlife of the 70s and 80s, an unexpected vision that allowed her to draw parallels to Glasgow’s rich cultural life. She acknowledges that her residency allowed her some distance from her emotionally intense work back home.
Margolles started her career as a photographer before moving on to
autopsy and taxidermy. In the 10 years she worked in the field she learnt to observe and understand a city by what is happening in its morgue. This has led her to an artistic practice that examines mortality: the way we die tells us a lot about the way we live. For one project she recovered suicide notes from dead bodies and displayed the text on disused cinema display boards in order to tell the very last story of a person. She once moved a wall perforated with bullet holes to serve as monument in a NYC park. She has made jewellery using shattered glass extracted from the anonymous victims of drug related crimes shot to death in their cars. For her presentation at the Venice Biennale 2009 she switched the Mexican flag with a blood soaked cloth in reference to the streets of Juárez. Inside the gallery workers mopped the floor daily by adding a thin layer of bloody water so that viewers become physically implicated.
In telling poignant stories of human life amidst the terror and violence, Margolles creates beauty and brings the political down to a cellular level. (Talitha Kotzé) ■ Glasgow Sculpture Studios, The Whisky Bond, Fri 20 Apr–Sat 30 Jun.
FREE Niall MacDonald: Ammonite KitKat Until Fri 13 Apr. Everyday objects cast in plaster and rubber.
✽✽ FREE Emory Douglas Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. See preview, page
119. Part of GI.
■ THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5360. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; during GI also Son noon–5pm. Spaced in the City Sat 31 Mar, 6pm–1am. £8. New multi-arts event, planned as the first in a series of collaborative happenings around the city. FREE High Street Until Tue 17 Apr. Exhibition looking at the evolution of the Scottish high street. FREE Arrives in Starting Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. Work by emerging artists. Part of GI.
■ LILLIE ART GALLERY Station Road, Milngavie, 578 8847. Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm. FREE Young People’s Art Sat 31 Mar–Thu 24 May. Work by students at the gallery’s art classes.
■ MACKINTOSH MUSEUM The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Normal opening hours Mon–Fri 10.30am–4.30pm, Sat 10am–2pm; extended opening hours during GI, daily 10am–5pm. FREE To Have A Voice Until Sat 31 Mar. Group show of figurative paintings. FREE A White Woman’s Photographic Travel Journal Fri 6–Thu 12 Apr. Nina Bacos’ intervention into whiteness as a racial construction. FREE Folkert de Jong: The Immortals Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. See preview, page 11. Part of GI.
■ MARKET GALLERY 334 Duke Street, 556 7276. Normal opening hours Thu–Sun 11am–5pm; extended opening hours during GI, daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). FREE In the Shadow of the Hand Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. Objects cast in lead and then melted down and recast as letters. Part of GI. ■ MARY MARY @ 45 ALEXANDRA PARK STREET 45 Alexandra Park Street, marymarygallery.co.uk Daily during GI, 11am–6pm. FREE Marieta Chirulescu & David Korty Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May. New commissioned works on paper, paintings and sculptures. Part of GI.
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Normal opening hours Tue–Sat noon–6pm; extended opening hours during GI, daily 11am–6pm. FREE Construct ●●●●● Until Sat 7 Apr. A study of manipulation and alteration as the method for constructing new images.
FREE Sara Barker: 8 works (made at home) Sat 31 Mar–Sat 7 Apr. New sculptural works, marking the publication of the artist’s first book. FREE Lorna Macintyre: Midnight Scenes & Other Works Fri 20 Apr–Sat 2 Jun. New sculptural works, photographs and cyanotypes. Part of GI. ■ MITCHELL LIBRARY North Street, 287 2999. Opening hours vary, see individual exhibition listings. FREE Nairy Baghramian: Spanner (Strecher/Loiterer) Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May, Mon–Sat 10am–6pm (Thu until 8pm). A major new sculptural installation by the Iranian-born artist. Part of GI. FREE Art Lending Library Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May, Mon–Sat 10am–6pm (Tue & Thu until 8pm). An experimental library, allowing members of the public to borrow selected works by 50 artists for a limited period. Part of GI.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm; during GI also Sun noon–5pm. FREE Padraig Timoney: Shepard ●●●●● Tone Until Wed 11 Apr. See review, page 120. FREE Paul Thek: If you don’t like this book, you don’t like me Fri 20 Apr–Sat 2 Jun. An exhibition of the fascinating notebooks of American artist Paul Thek (1933–1988). Part of GI.
■ OLD HAIRDRESSERS Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane, 222 2254. glasgowinternational.org/openglasgow FREE Open Glasgow: Prawn’s Pee Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May, times vary. A temporary print room has been set up to produce a limited edition newspaper for GI. The paper is released at 6pm each day, with talks and events accompanying its production. Part of GI. ■ THE OLD PIPE FACTORY Back Door/Third Floor, 42 Bain Street. glasgowinternational.org/pipefactory FREE Least Event Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May, times vary. A series of events from Glasgow-based artists. Part of GI.
■ PLATFORM The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696. Mon–Fri 10am–8pm; Sat & Sun 10am–5pm. FREE Alex Frost: The New Easterhouse Mosaic Fri 20 Apr–Mon 7 May, 24 hours. A mosaic situated outside the venue, referencing the Easterhouse Mosaic, destroyed during redevelopment. Part of GI. ■ PROJECT ABILITY Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; during GI also Mon 10am–5pm & Sun noon–6pm. FREE The Highway Code Until Sat 14 Apr. A transport-themed exhibition organised with three Canadian arts
2012 An eighteen day celebration of the best in visual art in over forty locations
across the city.
122 THE LIST 29 Mar–26 Apr 2012