Highlights | VISUAL ART
HIGHLIGHTS Our pick of the best exhibitions. For complete listings, see list.co.uk/visualart
MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY & PATRICK
WATERHOUSE: PONTE CITY Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 26 Apr, nationalgalleries. org/portraitgallery Ponte City is an iconic tower block in Johannesburg. Subotzky and Waterhouse have
comprehensively documented its tenants in this acclaimed exhibition. See review, page 89.
ERICH SALOMON & BARBARA KLEMM: A
LEAP IN TIME
Stills, Edinburgh, Sat 7 Feb–Sun 5 Apr, stills. org Work by two German photojournalists: Salomon (1886–1944) photographed
H I T L I S T
the political and social elite, sometimes with a hidden camera; Klemm (b. 1939) recorded historic moments with unobtrusive skill and sensitivity. See
preview, page 90. COLD
LAURA ALDRIDGE: CALIFORNIA WOW!
Tramway, Glasgow, until Sun 22 Mar, tramway.org An installation engaging with the relationship between art, craft and performance. See preview, page 92.
TILL THE STARS TURN
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, until Sat 14 Mar, glasgowsculpture studios.com Work by contemporary artists interested in objects and bodies that carry speech. A partnership project between Sheffield’s S1 Artspace and Glasgow Sculpture Studios. See preview, page 92.
Feb–Sat 21 Mar, 357 7246 New work from Glasgow-based artist. WENDELIEN VAN OLDENBORGH: BEAUTY AND THE RIGHT TO THE
The following selected highlights are listed by city, then date. Submit listings for your event at list.co.uk/add
GLASGOW
ALEX DORDOY: MODEL T The Modern Institute @ Aird’s Lane, until Sat 21 Mar, themoderninstitute.com Further investigations of the relationship between reality and the pictorial plane.
NATHAN WITT: A INTERLOPER CCA, Sat 7–Sun 22 Feb, cca- glasgow.com Conceptual work by British artist concerned with culturally defined notions of time and with the superstition and mystification that surround the perception of art.
ALASDAIR GRAY: SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
Gallery of Modern Art, until Mon 25 May, glasgowlife.org.uk A look at the influences on Gray himself, and his own influence on others, drawing on works in the gallery’s collection.
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JAMES RIGLER: AT EVERY DAVID LEMM: DEBRIS AND
FADING OF THE STARS PHENOMENA
Tramway, until Sun 8 Mar, tramway. org Work in ceramics, inspired by architecture and domestic objects.
JUDAH PASSOW: SCOTS JEWS – IDENTITY, BELONGING AND THE
Edinburgh Printmakers, until Sat 7 Mar, edinburgh-printmakers. co.uk Semi-abstract printed works produced in the venue and also during a residency on the isle of Eigg.
FUTURE ABJAD
Street Level Photoworks, Sat 14 Feb–Sun 12 Apr, streetlevelphotoworks.org Images of Scotland’s Jewish community, from the Borders to Shetland. Ingleby Gallery, until Sat 21 Mar, inglebygallery.com Contemporary abstraction from Jane Bustin, Kevin Harman, Paul Kier and Jeff McMillan.
UGLY Collective Gallery, City Observatory & Dome, until Sun 29 Mar, collectivegallery.net Dutch artist who uses the format of a public film shoot to explore social relations. Featuring her film Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, which in turn borrows its title from the 1982 exhibition The Beautiful and the Right to be Ugly by Italian-Brazilian artist Lina Bo Bardi.
MAGNE FURUHOLMEN: PEELING A GLASS ONION
Dovecot Studios, Fri 6 Mar–Sat 25 Apr, dovecotstudios.com A tapestry made by the studio’s expert weavers, based on a print entitled Glass Onion made by the Norwegian artist. Trivia fact: although one of Norway’s most distinguished visual artists, Magne Furuholmen is possibly better known as the keyboard player in A-ha.
so-called ‘Two Roberts’: Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, artists, friends of Bacon and Freud, lovers and until now more notorious for their bohemianism and their openness about their sexuality than celebrated for their art. CLYDEBANK
ARTIST ROOMS: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Clydebank Museum, Fri 27 Feb– Sat 23 May, west-dunbarton. gov.uk Moving, arresting and truly significant work by prolific American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Featuring groundbreaking portraiture of his contemporaries – Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Patti Smith – and his iconic self-portraits.
DUNDEE
EMMA CHARLES, ROSE ENGLISH, ABRI DE SWARDT: ‘MEN GATHER,
POSSIBILITIES OF THE OBJECT: IN SPEECH . . .’
EXPERIMENTS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN
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Fruitmarket Gallery, Fri 13 Mar– Mon 25 May, fruitmarket.co.uk A group exhibition looking at the ways in which Brazilian artists made cutting- edge art from the 1950s to the 70s. Curated by Paulo Venancio Filho.
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee, until Sun 22 Feb, dundee.ac.uk/ djcad/exhibitions A film exhibition touching on Hannah Arendt’s notion of ‘the space of appearance’ and the ways in which the public realm of action and speech between people is being slowly silenced. FLORIAN & MICHAEL
DAVID RUSHTON: BERLIN, 1989 THE TWO ROBERTS: ROBERT
QUISTREBERT: VISIONS OF VOID
RACHEL LEVINE CCA, Fri 20 Feb–Sat 14 Mar, cca- glasgow.com Work by recent GSA graduate which explores sculpture both as a means of research and as a medium in itself.
Summerhall, until Sun 22 Mar, summerhall.co.uk Images of Berlin in 1989 taken from the Eastern side, contrasting with the normally jubilant images taken at that period on the Western side.
MACBRYDE AND ROBERT COLQUHOUN
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, until Sun 24 May, nationalgalleries.org/ visit/modern-one The first major retrospective of the work of the
ROMANY DEAR: DANCING IN A ISMAEL TERIA
CIRCLE IS A REMINDER THAT WE
ARE PART OF THE WHOLE CCA, until Sun 15 Mar, cca- glasgow.com An overview of the practice of the artist and choreographer.
KARI ROBERTSON: OHMAGE SWG3, Studio Warehouse, Fri 13
Interviewroom 11, Forest Centre +, Fri 6–Sat 28 Mar, interviewroom11. tumblr.com New work from Spanish artist exploring the history of Argyle House, the brutalist office block which once hosted Companies House and DHSS offices, and which now houses artist studios, workshops, and the Interviewroom 11 gallery itself.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Sat 7 Feb–Sun 22 Mar, dca.org.uk From the collaborative French brothers comes this collection of abstract videos and paintings inl uenced by Op Art. KIRKCALDY
ARTIST ROOMS: DIANE ARBUS Kirkcaldy Galleries, Sat 14 Feb– Sun 31 May, kirkcaldygalleries. org.uk Work by the American photographer whose images prompt questions about the limits of photography, and the ways in which we look at images of other people.
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