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✽ Bronwen Sleigh: Construct Prints and 3D constructions drawing on industrial
architecture form the basis of this solo show. The exhibition showcases prints, drawings and objects including work commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers. See review, page 106. Edinburgh Printmakers, until Sat 20 Jul.
✽ GSA Degree Show Last chance to see the work of students graduating from
Glasgow School of Art in disciplines across art, design and architecture. Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, until Sat 15 Jun.
✽ Ilana Halperin: The Library Geology,
erosion and the history of the planet are the subjects of this exhibition by Ilana Halperin. See review, page 106. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, until Sun 29 Sep.
✽ Johanna Basford: Wonderlands A forest of paper trees, tattooed showroom
dummies, woodland creatures and cuckoo clocks lay bare the imagination of this increasingly high-profile illustrator and artist. See page 106. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, until Sun 7 Jul.
✽ Stephen Sutcliffe: Outwork The Glasgow video artist’s most ambitious
show to date, featuring his film collages and using snippets from British television, film clips and archive audio to playfully comment on our notions of class and culture. Tramway, Glasgow, until Sun 30 Jun.
✽ Man Ray Portraits The first major
Y A R N A M
museum retrospective of the influential artist’s work features around 150 photographs. Vintage photos include those of the artist’s friends, lovers and contemporaries such as Picasso and Salvador Dali. See preview, left. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 22 Jun–Sun 22 Sep.
13 Jun–11 Jul 2013 THE LIST 105
Y A R N A M
MAN RAY PORTRAITS Major retrospective by Dada and Surrealist artist
V intage photographic portraits by one of the most influential and innovative artists of the 20th century are showcased in this major retrospective show, touring from the National Portrait Gallery in London. Born Michael Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890, Man Ray worked across disciplines including painting, sculpture, printmaking and film, and was a significant figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements. Although he taught himself photography only to record his own artworks, it is perhaps for this medium that he is now best known; particularly his experimentation and his ‘Rayographs’, images made without a camera. Together with his lover and collaborator Lee Miller, he discovered the process of solarisation, a technique that reverses the tone on a photograph, demonstrated in an arresting portrait in the
exhibition of Miller herself.
The ambitious exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery contains around 150 photographs, taken between 1916 and 1968, and traces the artist’s life and work in New York between 1916 and 1920, to Hollywood during the 1940s, and finally the years spent in Paris after the war. Man Ray made a significant number of portraits in Hollywood, and a number are shown for the first time in the exhibition. The images also include personal, intimate portraits of Man Ray’s friends and lovers, as well as well-known figures such as Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Coco Chanel and Wallis Simpson. (Rhona Taylor)
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 22 Jun–Sun 22 Sep.