TIONAL HITS Our critics pick eight shows they’re looking forward to at Glasgow International
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SUE TOMPKINS: COME TO OZARK
Glasgow-based artist Sue Tompkins has gathered a rich and international body of work in the time since she graduated from Glasgow School of Art two decades
ago, most predominantly as a sound artist who incorporates found vocalised words from her everyday life into her work.
This exhibition at one of the city’s largest galleries (part of Glasgow
International even though it launched earlier this month),
incorporates new fabric pieces, paintings as well as works
on newsprint.
LE SWIMMING
For the past year, curator Sukaina
Kubba has reappropriated the underground car park at
Fleming House (just off Renfrew Street and in close proximity to the Glasgow School of Art) as an art exhibition venue. Six
graduates of GSA’s MLitt in Fine Art Practice (Nadège Druzkowski, Jenny Lewis, Philippe Murphy,
Alys Owen, Beth Shapeero and Kubba herself) seek to reinterpret the space as an
MICHAEL SMITH: VIDEOS AND
MISCELLANEOUS
STUFF FROM STORAGE (PT 2)
If the medium is the message, Michael Smith is one of the
video age’s great dissenters. For more than 30 years, Smith has
taken on the mantles of assorted guileless everymen and put them
centre-stage in a plethora of
works that satirise the absurdities of TV format clichés found in
imagined former swimming pool infomercials, game shows
with works that explore ‘other spaces’. The aim, they suggest, is to comment upon the fate of modernism and the use of
and pop videos.
Smith’s i rst major solo show in a UK institution will feature a
compendium of works in which he
There will also be three
space in a contemporary urban dissects the mechanisms of the
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HUDINILSON JR
This retrospective will examine the 35-year career of Sao Paulo- born artist Hudinilson Jr, who sadly died in 2013. Spanning grafi ti, sculpture, collage and performance, the artist tackled
themes of queerness and sexuality in the context of a
newly demilitarized society (the junta that had ruled Brazil for
much of the artist’s lifetime was ousted in favour of a democratic
government in 1985). His photocopied, collaged
‘diaries’ will form the core of the exhibition, highlighting his focus on images of young, male
bodies harvested from magazines and friends’ photo albums, and
occasionally posed with the photocopiers themselves.
(Niki Boyle)
performances, two on-site at the venue and one broadcast via the BBC. (David Pollock)
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, until Mon 21 Apr
environment. (David Pollock)
Underground Car Park at Fleming House, Glasgow, Fri 4–Mon 21 Apr
mass media, recalling the work of
arch satirist Chris Morris. (Neil Cooper)
Tramway, Glasgow, Fri 4 Apr–Sun 4 May
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Fri 4–Mon 21 Apr
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