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HITLIST THE BEST EXHIBITIONS
✽ Summerhall Art & Music exhibitions Six compelling exhibitions exploring the rela-
tionship between sound and vision, including pho- tos of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan and collages from Mama Baer (pictured), Kommissar Hjuler & Violet Storm. See review, page 116 and Big Pic, page 9. Summerhall, Edinburgh, until Sat 24 Nov.
✽ Rembrandt and the Passion The Dutch master’s ‘Entombment Sketch’ of the
Passion of the Christ alongside works by other artists. See review, page 113. Hunterian Gallery, Glasgow, until Sun 2 Dec.
✽ Carpets of Distinction Tufted rugs designed by artists including John Byrne,
Ruth Ewan and Alasdair Gray and made in con- junction with weaver Jonathan Cleaver. Reviewed next issue. Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, until Fri 21 Dec.
✽ Andy Hope 1930: When Dinosaurs Become Modernists The Berlin-based artist formerly known as Andreas Hofer’s first UK museum exhibition features five new works among an epic 41. See review, page 113. Inverleith House, Edinburgh, until Sun 13 Jan.
Edinburgh until Sun 13 Jan.
✽ Galápagos See review, left. Fruitmarket, ✽ George Wyllie Retrospective: In Pursuit of the Question Mark Works
by the late Glasgow-born artist who created the celebrated ‘Paper Boat’ and ‘The Straw Locomotive’. Reviewed next issue. Mitchell Library, Glasgow, until Sat 2 Feb.
✽ Jitka Hanzlová Series of works created by the Czech-born photographer on her
first visit home following the fall of the Berlin Wall. See review, page 113. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 3 Feb.
SHOW OF THE MONTH
GALÁPAGOS Fascinating group show inspired by the Pacifi c archipelago
C harles Darwin’s ‘little world within itself’ bears the weight of artistic in- terpretation in this fascinating group show. Bringing together the work of 11 artists who spent time in the archipelago courtesy of a residency programme set up by the Galapagos Conservation Trust working with the Charles Darwin foundation to highlight the unique problems the islands currently face, Galápa- gos bursts with innovation of the most natural- ist variety.
If Dorothy Cross’s monumentally awesome bone sculpture ‘Whale’ is the elemental bounc- er at the entry to this exhibition, Brighton-born Tania Kovats’ lovely coral ‘Colony’ is the segue into it. From here it is Jeremy Deller’s
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cruel but compulsively watchable short ‘Cock Fight’ and Alison Turnbull’s stunning butterl y wall charts that provide focus, while Marcus Coates’ TV installation ‘Human Report’ and Dorothy Cross’ experiments in taxidermy and i lmmaking provide the humour. Upstairs the cradle of evolutionary theory joyously topples over. Alexis Deacon’s bril- liant sketches recall the works of John Tenniel, Semiconductor’s experimental i lm triptych fuses the microscopic with the social politi- cal and Kaffe Matthews’ sound sculpture is a humbling experience. (Paul Dale)
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