VISUAL ART SUPPORTED BY
ECONOMY Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd curate these two parallel exhibitions investigating the increasing dominance of the economy as a factor in shaping people’s lives and how this is reflected in art. Alongside a range of artworks addressing themes ranging from climate change to migration and the crisis in democracy, the programme features screenings, public forums, talks and performances as well as two new residency-based commissions by Edinburgh-based photographer Owen Logan and the Austrian collective Wochenklausur, who will collaborate with residents in Drumchapel as part of their work ‘Participatory Economics’. Visit economyexhibition.net to upload your own photographs, consult documents and contribute to the ongoing discussion on the subject. ■ Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 21 Apr; CCA, Glasgow, Sat 26 Jan–Sat 23 Mar.
The Age of Improvement Portraits from the century of Scotland’s great transformation, 1750–1850, including Nasmyth’s deliberately and stylishly unfinished picture of Robert Burns, Danloux’s all-action portrait of Admiral Duncan keeping a cool head in the middle of a sea battle, Raeburn’s picture of Walter Scott as king of the hill, before bankruptcy forced him to work himself to death, and Richard Dadd’s unnerving, hyper-detailed picture of Sir Alexander Morison, the ‘alienist’ who was consultant to the Bethlem psychiatric hospital where Dadd was confined.
■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm
✽ Economy Until Sun 21 Apr. See CCA, Glasgow.
■ SUMMERHALL 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Daily 11am-6pm. LAST CHANCE Andy Warhol & Joseph Beuys: The ‘Lost’ Photographs Until Sat 26 Jan. Exhibition documenting the unlikely but genuine friendship between two great 20th century artists: Andy Warhol, the Ice King of deadpan nihilism, and Joseph Beuys, the mischievous, fedora’d shaman of environmentalist modernism. Warhol once held a party for Beuys, and these photographs, long thought lost, document the event. LAST CHANCE Antonio Claudio Carvalho: Great Works Of Art and More Great Works Of Art Until Sat 26 Jan. Ficitonal book covers and posters, commemorating famous people from art, literature and philosophy. LAST CHANCE Ingrid Christie: 12 Factorial Until Sat 26 Jan. Ingrid Christie, artist-in-residence at Summerhall and one of the brainiest of contemporary artists (before she turned to art she was a brilliant maths student) has produced 12 panelled paintings which can be rearranged in over 245 billion combinations, and which thanks to a 110 THE LIST 24 Jan–21 Feb 2013
digital display in the gallery, are in fact continually thus rearranged. The factorial of 12 is actually a little over 479 billion, but you won’t hear us complaining. LAST CHANCE Philipe Broutin: One Day/Concerto for a Mouth Until Sat 26 Jan. Installation work on themes of mortality. LAST CHANCE Stephen Thorpe: Once It’s In You, It Never Goes Away Until Sat 26 Jan. Paintings and drawings tempting the viewer to journey into the artist’s imagination.
■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm LAST CHANCE Serge Charchoune: The Exhibition is Open Until Sat 16 Feb. Exhibition of work by the enigmatic Russian artist (1888-1975), who played with many styles only to elude classification and whose work is only now beginning to be valued. Curated by Glasgow artist Merlin James.
✽ LAST CHANCE Zoe Beloff Until Sat 16 Feb. First solo show in Scotland
by Scottish-born artist who moved to the USA in 1980. The Days of the Commune draws links between the Paris Commune and the Occupy Wall Street movement, whereas Dreamland commemorates the centennial of Freud’s visit to Coney Island. See review, page 106.
■ TORRANCE GALLERY 36 Dundas Street, 556 6366. Mon–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10.30am–4pm LAST CHANCE Jolomo: Croftscapes and Flowers Until Sat 9 Feb. Landscapes and still lifes by John Lowrie Morrison. ■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. LAST CHANCE It’s The Little Things Until Mon 4 Feb. Group exhibition of very small pictures. NEW In the Company of Birds Thu 7 Feb–Wed 27 Feb. Group exhibition
of paintings and sculpture inspired by the feathery denizens of the class Aves. Featured artists include Janet Melrose, Jenny Matthews and Marcella Trsova. the exhibition also contains her acclaimed Plymouth Rock (2012), a installation that manages to cover pilgrims, Chinese takeways, and Justin Bieber in one go.
OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ THE CHANGING ROOM Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, 01786 274005. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. NEW David Sherry Sat 16 Feb–Fri 12 Apr. New work from artist committed to mischievously questioning ideas of normality and accepted behaviour. (An earlier work consisted of him paying for his own teeth to be brushed each morning by a member of the public). ■ DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 13 Perth Road, Dundee, 01382 345330. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am– 4.30pm. LAST CHANCE Estrangement Until Sat 16 Feb. Cinematic installation showing work by four international artists: Fatma Bucak, Larisa Daiga, Evariste Maiga and Samuel Williams, all exploring the situation of being displaced from the world. Bucak’s Blessed are those who come is a haunting and tragicomic video of the artist’s performance for and with a group of elderly men on the Turkish-Armenian border; Daiga draws on her background in industrial design; Maiga’s performance work is based on improvisation and Williams works within self-imposed constraints.
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm. LAST CHANCE Trisha Baga: Holiday Until Sun 27 Jan. American artist Trisha Baga mounts her first solo show in a public UK gallery. Featuring a new multimedia work inspired by Dundee charity shops and pound stores,
■ GENERATOR PROJECTS Unit 25-26 Mid Wynd Industrial Estate, Dundee, 01382 225982. Thu–Sun noon–5pm. NEW Post-mortem – Jonathan Baxter and . . . Fri 25 Jan–Sun 3 Feb. Exhibition confronting the results of the D-AiR (Dundee Artists in Residence) programme.
■ LINLITHGOW BURGH HALLS The Cross, Linlithgow, 01506 282720. Mon, Wed, Fri & Sat 9am-5pm; Tue & Thur 9am-9pm; Sun 11am-5pm. LAST CHANCE Alison Kinnaird: Luminesce Until Sun 3 Feb. An exhibition of work from international glass artist Alison Kinnaird whose work fuses light and and colour to create pieces inspired by the Scottish landscape and the human figure. ■ MCMANUS: DUNDEE’S ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM Albert Square, Meadowside, Dundee, 01382 307200. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 12.30pm–4.30pm. Reflections from the Tay Until Sun 11 Aug. Paintings by artists with links to Dundee, including the Tayport Artists’ Circle, the Dundee Classicists, Seven Painters in Dundee, the Scottish Colourists and others.
■ PERTH MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY 78 George Street, Perth, 01738 632488. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe Until Sat 27 Apr. Moving, arresting and truly significant work by prolific American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Featuring ground-breaking portraiture of his contemporaries – Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Patti Smith – and his iconic self-portraits.