VISUAL ART
Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 16 days before publication to art@list.co.uk. Listings compiled by Kirstyn Smith and Alex Johnston. All exhibitions free unless otherwise stated. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
GLASGOW
■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. Opening times vary, see individual exhibition listings for information. NEW Jenny Wicks: Correct – The meaning and construction of space Sat 2–Sat 9 Mar. Photos and audio work. ■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm; Intermedia Gallery opening hours vary, see individual exhibition listings. Economy Until Sat 23 Mar. Work exploring the resurgence of the economy. LAST CHANCE Suzanne Déry
and G Küng: Giantess Until Fri 1 Mar. Tue-Sat 11am–6pm. Interactive installation. NEW Romany Dear: Dance is a language that we speak Fri 15 Mar–Tue 30 Apr. New performative works related to preoccupation with everyday gestures and movement as language. ■ COMPASS GALLERY 178 West Regent Street, 221 6370. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm (Thu until 7pm); Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun 11am–4pm. LAST CHANCE The Drawing Show Until Sat 23 Feb. New drawings.
■ DAVID DALE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 161 Broad Street, Bridgeton, 258 9124. Fri–Sun noon–5pm. LAST CHANCE Easy Does It Until Sat 23 Feb. Examination of the complexity intrinsic to simple actions. NEW Marie-Michelle Deschamps & Ditte Gantriis: Standard Sat 9–Sat 30 Mar. Works by artists from Quebec and Denmark. ■ EWAN MUNDY FINE ART 211 West George Street, 248 9755.
Mon–Fri 10am–5pm. NEW Sir William Gillies (1898–1973) Thu 7–Wed 27 Mar. Watercolours, drawings and paintings.
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. LAST CHANCE Fiona Tan: Disorient Until Sun 24 Feb. Film installation. Niki de Saint Phalle: The Eric and Jean Cass Gift Until Sat 16 Nov. Several Saint Phalle sculptures and paintings by John Bellany. Tales of the City: Gallery 2 Until Sun 23 Jun. Works from GoMA’s collection. NEW Rachel Mimiec: Plough Fri 22 Feb–Mon 27 May. New works in paint. ■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Gallery: Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. Workshop: Tue–Thu 10am–9pm; Fri & Sat 10am–5.30pm. LAST CHANCE Blueprint: Photography in Printmaking Until Sun 17 Mar. Images created by lenses. LAST CHANCE Douglas
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Thomson Until Sun 3 Mar. Digital landscapes and portraits. NEW Jila Peacock Fri 8–Sun 31 Mar. Prints in collaboration with late composer Jonathan Harvey. ■ GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART 167 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Interpretation space & shop open daily 10.30am–5pm; building tours 11am, 1pm & 3pm. LAST CHANCE Mariusz Tarkawian: Anticipating the Future Until Sat 23 Feb. Thu–Sat 11am–5pm. Witty drawings of art in the future.
■ GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS The Whisky Bond, Dawson Street, 353 3708. Thu–Sat 11am–5pm. The Objects Until Sat 6 Apr. Portraits of inanimate, sculptural things using film or video. ■ HIDDEN LANE GALLERY 1081 Argyle Street, hiddenlanegallery. com Margaret Watkins and the Clarence White School 1919–1925 Until Tue 12 Mar. Tue– Sat 11am–5pm. Images by Watkins, White and their students.
REVIEW SCULPTURE NICK EVANS: SOLAR EYES Tramway, Glasgow, until Sun 31 Mar ●●●●●
One enters the exhibition through a dusky and dramatic pyramid passageway. The suspense of discovery hangs thick in the air before a big volcanic hall is reached. Inside, stories of a distant past echo with predictions of the future. Nick Evans has set up a monumental show in which the
strange re-enactment of a faux Mayan ruin becomes home to his signature large, white-plaster sculptures in their varying semi- excavated positions. These carefully crafted forms are actively engaged in their own language of representation. Some are elevated like deities, while others are partly destroyed. Sculpted in ceramic and sprawled across a chunky wooden
table lies the remnants of a banquet’s half-eaten plates of food. Like the manifestation of a child’s drawing, the forks are wonky, the colours messy, but each individual piece of meat is carefully formed and each pea is painted in a mossy garden green. Elsewhere, kinetic sculptures rotate and inflate with absurdity. The modern-day habit of circumnavigating the cosmos from a touch screen has been subverted through the installation of large, colourful painted murals towering above, stamping down authority. Evans’ orchestrated universe, saturated with motifs of ancient civilizations, becomes an imposing theme park. This show is genius in its conception and meticulous in execution. It is the work of a craftsman and calls for the appreciation of classic sculpted forms at the same time as the scrutinising of their meaning. (Talitha Kotzé)
106 THE LIST 21 Feb–21 Mar 2013