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Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 16 days before publication to art@list. co.uk. Listings compiled by Alex Johnston. All exhibitions free unless otherwise stated. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
GLASGOW ■ BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. Burrell’s Masters of Impressionism Until Sun 5
Jan. Paintings and pastels by the impressionists and postimpressionists in context. ■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Galleries Tue–Sat 11am–6pm; general opening hours Mon–Sat 10am–midnight, Sun noon–midnight.. LAST CHANCE Mounira al Solh and Sarah Forrest Until Sat 9 Nov. Double solo show from Amsterdam artist and Glasgow-based artist. See preview, page 112. NEW Migrant Voice Engaging Pictures Exhibition Fri 18–Sun 20 Oct. Images of migrants’ lives. NEW Raydale Dower: The Eye of the Duck Thu 31 Oct–Sun 3 Nov.
Free but ticketed. Sonic installation by Scottish artist Ages 14+. Part of Sonica. NEW Robin Meier and Ali Momeni: Truce Thu 31 Oct–Sun 3 Nov. Free but ticketed. Sonic installation employing live mosquitoes. Sonica. NEW Walk with Me – Sounds in Your Pocket Thu 31 Oct–Sun 3 Nov. Free but ticketed. Composers Van Rijswijk and Strijbos have created an iPhone app that is triggered by GPS data – so as you walk around, it plays different melodies and soundscapes. Ages 14+. Sonica. NEW Josh Armstrong: Lunchbox Thu 31 Oct–Sat 2 Nov. 1pm. £10. Performance on the theme of lunch, by American multidisciplinary artist and Cryptic Associate Armstrong. Ages 16+. Sonica. Booking essential. NEW Secret Sonica – Suspense Fri 1 Nov, 9–11pm. £5. A surprise interactive installation from Taktal, Jack Wrigley and Kite & Laslett, with music from Golden Teacher and Giles Perring. Coaches transport the audience to an undisclosed location from CCA. Sonica. NEW Allison Gibbs: Spirit Shadow Spectre Bones and Phantom Sat 2–Sat 16 Nov. Wed–Sun noon–6pm. New film work by Australia-born artist based in Glasgow, inspired by the work of FW Murnau.
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HEADLINE GOES HERE ■ CLYDEBANK MUSEUM Clydebank Town Hall Dumbarton Road, 562 2400. Mon–Sat 10am–4.30pm. LAST CHANCE What Presence! Watch out Edinburgh, there’s a The Rock Photography of Harry new kid on the east coast block. Papadopoulos Until Sat 26 Oct. Well, OK, chances are Dundee’s Retrospective of the work of Glasgow- bookish extravaganza might never born Sounds magazine photographer. quite reach the exalted status ■ THE COMMON GUILD of the capital’s world-beating 21 Woodlands Terrace, 428 3022. Tue, literary fiesta but it’s making a very Wed, Fri, Sat noon–5pm; Thu noon–7pm. strong case for itself with a series
✽ Roman Ondák Until Sat 14 Dec. Paintings and drawings by celebrated Slovakian conceptual artist. See preview, page 114.
SCULPTURE HAEGUE YANG: JOURNAL OF BOUBA / KIKI Glasgow Sculpture Studios, until Fri 20 Dec
Born in Seoul and now based in the unofficial international artists’ enclave of Berlin, Haegue Yang finally makes a visit to Scotland, having exhibited extensively around the world. Significantly, this show also presents all-new work created during a Glasgow Sculpture Studios residency between June and September this year. Journal of Bouba / kiki follows Yang’s usual practice of adapting
everyday objects and arranging them in a particular sequence or relationship to one another so that their meaning and purpose is questioned. She’s used heaters, fans and venetian blinds in her pieces, once creating a mechanical ‘organism’ of centrally powered electrical devices that switched on and off in random sequence.
On another occasion she literally unpacked an exhibition, creating works that were boxed up on the gallery floor for the opening night and then slowly removing and mounting them over the course of the run. Here, with thematic if not actual links with a simultaneous solo show at the Bergen Kunsthall in Norway, she displays four separate works. ‘Three Folds and Multiple Twists’ is a new venetian-blind piece
that plays with Yang’s interest in the object’s function of concealing or revealing, the blind having been reconfigured to open in an unconventional manner. ‘Floating Knowledge and Growing Craft: Silent Architecture Under Construction’ and the pre-made ‘Spice Sheets’, meanwhile, are macramé and printed works that focus upon their processes of creation rather than the actual results, with an accompanying iPod soundtrack of the music, podcasts and radio stations Yang listened to while making them.
‘Two Ends of One’ is a series of casts of the artist’s hands in various ‘making’ positions, which seek to freeze the act of physical creation, while ‘Glasgow Tales of the Laugh’ collides photographs of the city with the words of Victor Hugo, both designed to contrast the industrial and the human in resonant fashion. (David Pollock)
■ COMPASS GALLERY 178 West Regent Street, 221 6370. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm. LAST CHANCE Helen Flockhart: Swan Like Until Sat 19 Oct. Paintings describing a personal mythology. ■ CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 178 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm. NEW Philip Reeves: Paintings, Collages and Prints Thu 24 Oct– Thu 14 Nov. Arresting new works on paper by veteran artist.
■ DAVID DALE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 161 Broad Street, Bridgeton, 258 9124. Thu–Sat noon–5pm. LAST CHANCE Steve Bishop and Richard Sides: To Clear the Bush of Your Garden Until Sat 2 Nov. New work by London-based artists. ■ DNA HUB 12–16 South Frederick Street LAST CHANCE Picture Window Thu 31 Oct–Sun 3 Nov. Thu–Sun, times vary. Participatory installation by All Eye’s Wide. Sonica.
■ EWAN MUNDY FINE ART 211 West George Street, 248 9755. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm. LAST CHANCE Glasgow Boys & Glasgow Girls Until Fri 1 Nov. Paintings, drawings and other works by Arthur Melville, James Paterson, Stuart Park, Jessie King, Katharine Cameron and others.
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. A Picture Show Until Sun 2 Feb. Paintings by artists who live and work in Glasgow.
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