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HITLIST THE BEST EXHIBITIONS
✽ 40/40 New pieces by Glasgow Print Studio members and invited artists
including Jim Lambie, Ken Currie, Alison Watt and Toby Paterson. See preview, page 105. Glasgow Print Studio, until Sun 13 Oct.
✽ Andy Warhol Curated with the
Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and supported by the Carnegie UK Trust, this is the first time Warhol’s work has been shown in a parliament building anywhere in the world. See preview, left. The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, Sat 5 Oct–Sun 3 Nov.
✽ Sukaina Kubba: Pavor Nocturnus
Exhibition of paintings and ‘unconventional materials’ following a residence by the Baghdad-born artist who graduated from Glasgow School of Art last year. See preview, page 108. Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, Sat Sep 28–Sat Nov 9.
✽ David Peat: An Eye on the World Retrospective of the photographer
and documentary filmmaker who died last year, timed to coincide with the launch of Peat’s second book, An Eye on the World. See preview, page 106. Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Fri 27 Sep–Sat 26 Oct.
✽ Nation//Live The first big outreach project by the Portrait Gallery since its
refurbishment looks at five themes that have shaped modern Scotland – work, union, faith, civil war and roots. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 5 Oct–Sat 4 May.
✽ Sara Barker: The Things that are Solid, Absorbed and Still
New sculptural work from the Manchester-born artist made of assemblages of aluminium, steel, brass and glass. Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Sat 26 Oct.
ANDY WARHOL: POP, POWER AND POLITICS Andy goes to Holyrood
A mong the Scottish Parliament building’s functions is its regular staging of high- profile exhibitions. Andy Warhol: Pop, Power and Politics is the latest project to be shown and it promises to be a genuinely big deal on Edinburgh’s gallery programme. Not only will many of the works on display be coming to Scotland for the first time, but the month-long residency also marks the not-inconsiderable landmark of Warhol’s art being shown in a parliament building for the first time anywhere in the world.
The exhibition has been curated by the Scottish Parliament’s exhibitions manager Fiona Andreas in collaboration with the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, from where most of the works come. It’s also been supported by the Carnegie UK Trust, with a rarely seen portrait of Warhol’s sometime benefactor Andrew Carnegie on display
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alongside images of Lenin, Mao and the Queen. Meanwhile, Artist Rooms have loaned various items that demonstrate Warhol’s support for political and environmental causes. ‘Warhol was evasive when questioned publicly about his views on politics,’ says the Presiding Officer, the Rt Hon Tricia Marwick MSP, who has been instrumental in bringing this exhibition to Scotland. ‘All of the pop artists reacted to the status quo of the American abstract expressionists, whose view was that art should exist outside of mass taste, popular culture and political movements. Yet Warhol, perhaps even more than any other pop artist, chose to depict people and symbols of power.’ (David Pollock)
Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, Sat 5 Oct–Sun 3 Nov.
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