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THE BEST EXHIBITIONS
- «was». "APOLLO" - No.959-83-zt Stretch Wig
:2: Ellen Gallagher - Orbls New York artist whose work ranges from delicately carved watercolour paper and Plasticine modelled wigs to video work sampling Dizzee Rascal. She wants to reanimate old images and bring them to life in new ways. It seems to be working. See feature. page 18. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 1 l Dec—Sun 73 Feb.
=i= Beagles and Ramsay - Unrealised Dreams Inspired by the grotesque at last year's Leonardo da Vinci show, these two genius reprobates put on a show of beautifully sketched uglies and use Mackintosh-carrying cases to contain gallons of blood (not their own this time). See conversation. Glasgow School of
BEAGLES AND RAMSAY are just back from a performance at MoMA in New York, where they featured a black pudding made of their own blood. They talk to Ruth Hedges about sausage self-portraits and their new renaissance—style show at
Art. Sat 4 Dec—Fri 14 Jan. :1: Torsten Lauschmann Brooding. kooky video work that
Glasgow School of Art.
How did the blood go down in New York?
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Graham Ramsay .v\t onc \tagc thc gallcr} managcr appcarcd and \lat'tcd l’rcaking out.
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it's pt‘clt}
up it clings to }out‘ clothcx.
GR 'l'ltct'c'x that kind ol cannibalism axpcct c\cn though §ou‘tt‘ not cating it. )ou can \mcll it. l’coplc look rcall) dixguxlcd. 'l‘hc on|_\ \xa_\ \\ c could gct thcm into thc Statcx “as to \tick ‘cm in thc mail and hopc for thc hcxt.
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I thought thc_\ \xcrc going to hc rcall_\ rancid.
GR \\c rcall_\ loadcd thcm \\ ith \alt \o it \xaxn't too had.
JB IIIIL'I'C \\ L‘l‘L' llIllL‘ pillt‘llLN Ul :JI'L‘L‘II . l‘lll IU l‘t' IIIIIIC\I ll \\a\n't ax disgusting ax uhcn \\ c madc it. \thn _\ou \tcam it it turns hlack and it‘s not so had. hut llic hit hcl'orc \\ ith thc harlc} and thc porridgc it looks likc diarrltoca.
GR \Vc'd takc lllllml cach da_\ and thcn trcc/c it and put it in \\ ith thc icc trap.
JB 'l‘hix is in m_\ ltouxc \\ ith lll_\ thrcc-_\c'.u‘-old \on. I’d \cnd him out ‘l)add_\ \ got to do somc cooking'
GR l)add} \\ant\ to pla) \\ ith unclc (irahamf
And what about the new show? GR I gucxx \\ ith this onc \xc'xc \ct up a littlc hit ol tcnxion
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thc_\ 'Il ha\ c a traditional kind ol \cduction and _\ou'rc going
to llax c to gct _\our noxc stuck into thcm tjttitc t'loxcl} to \cc
\xlial’x going on and \cc thc :Jl'tlIL‘\t|llt‘. lllllllitlll\l. dixlurhing.
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\xc'rc going to hc \xorking hard c\ct'_\ da} on thc ncu
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dirccliom a\ outlincd in thc intcr\ ic\\ _\c\tcrda_\. JB I “cut a hit ci'a/) laxt night .-\nd .lack l)anicl\ hclorc )ou turncd up.
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hclic\ c. thc phraxc uxcd lll thc application.
GR 'l'cchnical intimation.
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GR lt'x thc chcapcst \tudio tn (ilasgoxx.
JB lt‘x {till a month. ll'\ chcapcr than gcttlng a lock-up. actuall}.
GR lt‘x horrihlc. \Vc look do“ n on \oltlc kind of \lliitlllllg' gallcr}. \\'c'rc going to mm c to a rcall} l'lash \Illtllll ahout Hill) a month.
JB \cah. \\c'rc going to \tart \\c;tl'lllg \\lIIIL‘ \llll\.
GR \Vc‘ll ct'illcall} t‘cl‘lccl. 'I'llat‘x what It's all ahout at lltc CIILI ill lhc tltt}. l\ll'l ll (iotl hlcm )otl. JB 'l‘hc .-\rt\ ('ouncil. (iod hlcxx _\ou thc .-\rt\ (‘ouncil Beagles and Ramsay — Unrealised Dreams, Glasgow School of Art, Sat 4 Dec-Fri 14 Jan.
drinking clicap champagnc.
takes you into wooded landscapes and beyond to the Turkish Wizard of Oz. Transmissrm Gallery. Glasgow. until Sat 4 Dec.
=5: New Associates Revealing the new direction of the RSA, its new members include Calum Colvin, John Byrne, Gordon Munro and Michael Visocchi - fresh strokes for different folks. It's a winner. See review. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, until Sun 79 Dec.
Kingdom Modern day horror vacui - the fear of empty space — lives in this crowded. asswed celebration of substance. texture and colour. Market Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 77 Dec.
=l< Ed Buscha Californian hero of text and landscape whose pal. Janet Street Porter, is currently sweating it out in the jungle. This major retrospective covers his artistic career from small photographic books of gas stations and parking lots to large- scale paintings which reach right to The End.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, until Sun 16 Jan.