Visual Art
EXHIBITIONS OF THE YEAR
Art editor Ruth Hedges selects her top five visual encounters over the last 12 months
2004 began in suburbia — down cul de sacs. up tarmac drives. with dusky orangey skies lighting up wet pavements. George Shaw's wonderful scenes of the Midlands. painted in Humbrol paint. covered DCA‘s walls with muted intrigue. ‘What I Did This Summer' captured a mood that was both lonely and nostalgic. and stirred a few memories for a girl born in Wolverhampton.
Heading into summer, soggy leaves swept away. the lngleby Gallery. Edinburgh, pulled off something of a coup. For a group show. “From Here to Eternity‘ they installed a light piece by James Turrell called “Prado Red'. lt blew me away, stopped me dead in my tracks. Standing in the darkened room in front of this glowing. deep red projection time and space disappeared. It was truly moving.
Next time hairs were standing on the back of neck I was in a converted bus. It was the festival and the Collective Gallery had stage-managed a massive operation — Mike Nelson's The Pumpkin Palace shipped over from San Francisco. Stepping inside. terrorist dens. hobo hideaways. 70s hippy hangouts all lurked suggestively behind closed doors.
And the same month I was also lucky enough to meet Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi. Brought over as another strand of the Collective off-site programme. this inspiring man sketches like mad. summing up in a few lines what words and words of comment and analysis strive for.
But before communism had become a force to rail against. Russian graphic artists were seizing the day. The Hunterian's Avant Garde Graphics 1918- -34 was a knock-out. Exciting in every sense - these designers were working with a thrilling energy.
80. from the Midlands to Russia. via California and Islam. Not bad for one year.
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