VISUAL ART
Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work From About 1992 Until Now Until Sun 28 Sep. Encyclopaedic retrospective of one of Scotland’s most celebrated contemporary video artists. Generation. Moyna Flannigan: Stare Until Sun 2 Nov. Images of fictional characters, drawing inspiration from the story of Adam and Eve. Generation. Nathan Coley: The Lamp of Sacrifice Until Sun 1 Mar 2015. Scale models in cardboard of every place of worship listed in the 2004 Edinburgh telephone directory. Generation. ■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Gallery open Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm; closed Mon. LAST CHANCE Michael Fullerton: Meaning, Inc Until Sun 17 Aug. Portraits of people chosen for their relationship to media, technology and justice. Generation.
■ GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS The Whisky Bond, Dawson Street, 353 3708. Wed–Sat 11am–5pm; closed Sun–Tue. Mood Is Made / Temperature Is Taken Until Sat 6 Sep. Exhibition curated by American writer and curator Quinn Latimer considering craft and appropriation. Generation. ■ THE HIDDEN GARDENS Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Sat 10am–8pm; Sun noon–6pm. Mick Peter: Almost Cut My Hair Until Sun 5 Oct. Sculptures based on manipulated drawings. Generation.
■ HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Opening times vary; please call to check. Kenny Hunter: Kontrapunkt Until Thu 4 Sep. New and existing sculpture, exhibited alongside its packing crates. Generation.
■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 4221. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm; closed Mon. Lucy Skaer ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Jan. Film, drawing and sculpture drawing on the influence of maverick English surrealist Leonora Carrington. NEW Mackintosh Travel Sketches Fri 18 Jul–Sun 15 Feb. ‘Bits’ and ‘jottings’ from Mackintosh’s travels around Scotland, England and further afield. NEW William Davidson: Art Collector Fri 18 Jul–Sun 4 Jan. The collection of Davidson, one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s most important patrons. NEW Mackintosh Architecture Fri 18 Jul–Sun 4 Jan. £5 (£3). Over 80 rare architectural drawings, archival material, films and models exploring the work of Glasgow’s famous son.
■ JOHN GREEN FINE ART 182 Bath Street, 333 1991. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am–1pm; closed Mon & Sun. NEW Sam Cartman and Patricia Cain: Scotia Wed 16 Jul–6 Aug. New landscape paintings. ■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. LAST CHANCE Jewel-like Treasures: Dutch and Flemish Paintings on Copper Until Sun 14 Jun. Works dating back to the 1600s that eschew canvas or board in favour of thin sheets of copper. NEW Looking at World War I Opens Sat 12 Jul. Paintings and sculpture from the collection.
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NEW Getting Creative with Combat Stress Sat 2 Aug–Sun 16 Nov. Work of ex-service men and women who create art as therapy.
■ LEIPER FINE ART 117 West George Street, 204 2372. Opening times vary; see individual exhibitions for details. Early Summer Show Until Sun 13 Jul. Thu & Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–5pm. Original artwork and prints from Sue Biazotti, Frank Boyle, Fraser Crawford, Annette Edgar and more. ■ THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5365. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. LAST CHANCE Handmade by Machines Until Sun 13 Jul. Contemporary jewellery made by students and staff of Scottish jewellery
colleges, using digital technology. NEW Rosie Cunningham: The Glasgow Alphabet Map Fri 18 Jul–Sun 24 Aug. Illustrated alphabet of Glasgow’s iconic buildings. ■ LILLIE ART GALLERY Station Road, Milngavie, 956 5536. Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm; closed Mon & Sun. NEW Lys Hansen: Love & War & Paint Sat 12 Jul–Wed 24 Sep. Work from the 80s to the present day.
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue– Sat noon–6pm; closed Mon & Sun. LAST CHANCE Inside Arrangement Until Sat 2 Aug. New work by John Finneran, Jonathan Gardner, John McAllister, Gerda Scheepers and Sam Windett.
SCULPTURE / DRAWING CABBAGES IN AN ORCHARD; THE FORMERS AND FORMS OF CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH AND GRAHAM FAGEN Glasgow School of Art, Reid Gallery, until Fri 29 Aug ●●●●●
Graham Fagen says he fell out with Mackintosh at the Glasgow School of Art. However, when invited back more than 20 years later to spend time in the Mackintosh archive, he discovered he had more in common with the man than he expected. The body of work that he has produced in response is shown now as part of GENERATION, hastily relocated from the fire-hit Mackintosh building to the new Reid Building across the street. Fagen has long been interested in the factors that form us, as human beings and as artists, and he was quickly drawn to Mackintosh’s early work, watercolours produced for a one-off student publication, The Magazine, where he was working out his ideas by drawing on the symbolist tradition.
Trees and plants were important symbols for Mackintosh, as they have been for Fagen, and Fagen has responded to the paintings by making two tree sculptures: a bronze cast of a fir tree left out to ‘weather’ for a year (‘Scheme for Nature’), which manages to look both fragile and monumental, and the more stylised ‘Scheme for Conscience’, a diagrammatic tree that implies the working-out of ideas. But perhaps the most immediately striking body of work here is
‘Scheme for Consciousness’, more than 60 drawings in Indian ink that cover the walls of the gallery. Thinking about the uniqueness of our teeth provided Fagen with a way of creating a portrait from the inside, drawing his teeth according to their feel on his tongue, and adding colours to map out the rest of the head.
They sit alongside three sculptures that are casts of his teeth and clenched hands, mounted on concrete architectural frames. They are tense, confrontational, like portraits turned inside out – fresh, distinctive work that shows that contemplating Mackintosh can take an artist in all manner of new directions. (Susan Mansfield)
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE @ AIRD’S LANE 3–5 Aird’s Lane, 248 3711. Thu–Sat noon–5pm; closed Mon–Wed & Sun. Richard Wright Until Sat 30 Aug. Site-specific paintings, drawings and prints. Generation.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm; closed Sun. Scott Myles: Mummies Until Sat 30 Aug. Work by Dundonian artist concerned with public spaces and memory. Generation. ■ PEOPLE’S PALACE & WINTER GARDENS Glasgow Green, 276 0788. Tue– Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon. Beagles and Ramsay: Ventriloquist Dummies Double Self-portrait Until Mon 29 Sep. Installation involving ventriloquist dummy versions of Beagles and Ramsay themselves. Fred A Farrell – Glasgow’s War Artist Until Sun 23 Nov. Sketches and watercolours from the WWI artist.
■ PROJECT ABILITY Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; closed Mon & Sun. Cameron Morgan: Cameron’s Way – Coast to Coast Until Sat 23 Aug. Giant wall painting in the gallery space.
■ QUEEN’S PARK 520 Langside Road FREE Phil Collins: Tomorrow Is Always Too Long Sat 19 Jul, 9pm. The award-winning artist reveals his latest film project, comprising private photographs and personal stories of Glaswegians. See preview, page 117. Part of Festival 2014.
■ REID BUILDING Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Opening times vary; see individual exhibitions for details.
✽ Graham Fagen: Cabbages in an Orchard ●●●●● Until
Fri 29 Aug. Mon–Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. See review, left. Generation.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm; closed Mon. LAST CHANCE Faces of Scotland Until Fri 15 Aug. The 15th Annual Summer Exhibition celebrates the Commonwealth Games.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTOWORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm; closed Mon. LAST CHANCE Wendy McMurdo: Digital Play Until Sun 17 Aug. Work using photography and digital media. Generation. ■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Exhibitions open: Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm; closed Mon. Cathy Wilkes Until Sun 5 Oct. Work by Belfast-born installation artist who often draws upon her personal history. Generation. LAST CHANCE Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan Until Sun 27 Jul. The duo revisit their 2001 work Heroin Kills. Generation. NEW Charlie Hammond, Iain Hetherington and Alex Pollard Sat 9 Aug–Sun 14 Sep. The three Glasgow-based artists examine the role of painting in post-Internet society. Generation.