Cindy, Hanna and Grayson
Neil Cooper reviews three exhibitions in the Edinburgh Art Festival. Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80, Stills until 6 October. Hanna Tuulikki: Deer Dancer, Edinburgh Printmakers until 5 October. Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour, Dovecot Studios until 2 November
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage
National Galleries of Scotland, Modern Two. Until 27 Oct 2019. Review by Victoria Horne
Part 15: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ ALBANIA
‘How can local and other contexts be connected in a relevant way, without becoming simply—and sadly—“global?”’? Curator Alicia Knock ends our 15 part series on Eastern European countries’ participation at the Venice Biennale 2019.
Part 14: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ NORTH MACEDONIA
‘Through this act of re-examining the past, I refer to the theories of Marxism and of leftist ideology, discussing those issues openly.’ Artist Nada Prlja responds.
Part 13: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ KOSOVO
Response from artist Alban Muja. ‘A while ago, I tried to talk to my father about his experience in prison, if I can even call the place he was held a prison, since it was more like a concentration camp…’
Part 12: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ SERBIA
‘I am a European in a Brexit country, who curated a pavilion of a nation that is in the process of entering the EU but is not yet part of it.’ Response from curator Nicoletta Lambertucci continues our 15 part series.
Part 11: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Artist Danica Dakić: ‘I focus on the city of Zenica, once the symbol of socialist progress, which now faces extreme air pollution and high rates of unemployment.’ Manca Bajec and Isobel Wohl pose their questions.
Part 10: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ CROATIA
‘Traces of Disappearing, the project I am presenting in Venice, has been in progress for thirteen years…’ Response from artist Igor Grubić.
Part 9: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ SLOVENIA
‘…it seems that we are returning to that rather deterministic old situation in the current geopolitical shift.’ Artist Marko Peljhan discusses collaborative practice as a legacy for change.
Part 8: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ ESTONIA
‘Especially in our turbulent political context, being more together, supporting each other, and letting others’ voices complement one another seems more important than ever.’ Director Maria Arusoo, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn.
Part 7: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ LATVIA
‘Opening up even more, instead of closing in around national borders, should be the response.’ Curators Valentinas Klimašauskas and Inga Lāce continue our 15 part season.
Part 6: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ LITHUANIA
‘We opened a military zone to the public that had never before been seen, not even by locals.’ Lucia Pietroiusti, curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion, which was awarded 2019’s Golden Lion, participates in our interview series that sets questions in response to Ralph Rugoff’s Venice Biennale exhibition title, ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’.
Part 5: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ BULGARIA
Eastern European countries exhibiting at the Venice Biennale 2019 were interviewed by Manca Bajec and Isobel Wohl. Responses here by curator Vera Mlechevska and artists Lazar Lyutakov and Rada Boukova.
Part 4: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ ROMANIA
‘I am still interested in questioning the political importance of image-making and its circulation in contemporary society…’. Curator Dr Cristian Nae responds to the 3 questions set by Manca Bajec and Isobel Wohl to representatives of Eastern European countries exhibiting at the Venice Biennale 2019.
Part 3: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ POLAND
Artist Roman Stańczak and curators Łukasz Ronduda and Łukasz Mojsak, representing Poland at the Venice Biennale 2019, continue this 15 part interview series. Questions set by Manca Bajec and Isobel Wohl.
Part 2: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ CZECH REPUBLIC and SLOVAK REPUBLIC
‘From my perspective, art is not only a question of form, but is also the message.’ Artist Stanislav Kolíbal, representing Czech Republic and Slovak Rebublic, responds to the Venice questions.
Oliver Godow: Waiting for Godow
John Calcutt discovers a tangible presence in the abstract emptiness of Oliver Godow’s photographs
Streetwise
Ruth Beale, artist and founder of the nomadic organisation Aurora, investigates the dynamic scene which originated in Glasgow, and is now driving the young art community in Scotland
Michael Fullerton: Triangulation Theory
Michael Fullerton’s oeuvre adds up to much more than the paintings so frequently associated with it. John Calcutt discovers a playfulness of thought and fascination for chemistry, and theories in general, in this strikingly inquisitive artist’s work
‘This isn’t a body!’
Jane Hartshorn’s ekphrastic response to ‘NOW’ by Chantal Akerman at Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, September 14 - October 21
Goat in the Basment
Artist Stephan Dillemuth talks to MAP about his month-long residency at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 27 September–9 October
The Way In
Luke Fowler’s films exist on the margins of documentary. Martin Herbert examines the artist’s archive
PREFACE
Suzanne van der Lingen & Claire Walsh introduce their 2016 MAP editorial project
is it lovely yet? Narrative Experiments
Hannah van Hove introduces Narrative Experiments, Glasgow Women’s Library, Sat 25 Aug, 2018, 2-4pm
Remarks: Read-Out! Read-In!
Faith Wilding and Kate Davis are working towards a two-woman discursive exhibition project with CCA, Glasgow, entitled ‘The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?’, commissioned for Glasgow international, April 2010
Jonathan Monk
8 December 2006–18 February 2007, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / 29 November 2006 –20 January 2007, Lisson Gallery, London
Books: John Bellany
A monograph by John McEwen, published by Mainstream Publishing, April 2005
MAP Screen | Dancing With Myself
Miranda Pennell’s ‘Human Radio’ was the first film shown in a programme curated by Debi Banerjee for MAP Screen. Its run is now over but a text remains to view here.
Part 12: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ SERBIA
‘I am a European in a Brexit country, who curated a pavilion of a nation that is in the process of entering the EU but is not yet part of it.’ Response from curator Nicoletta Lambertucci continues our 15 part series.
Physical or Otherwise
Gwendolen Dupré on the alchemy of Suggestions and Encounters: Physical or Otherwise by Leontios Toumpouris at The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow, 9 February - 4 March
…where the art is: the interwoven spaces of Radiophrenia…
Anna McLauchlan channels ‘Radiophrenia’, a fortnight of live broadcast sound and transmission arts
Chapter Ten
The tenth and final instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Sophie Collins
FOCUS: 52nd Venice Biennale—Reflections
10 June–21 November 2007, Venice
Matthew Barney / Joseph Beuys
28 October 2006–12 January 2007, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Dorothea Tanning: A Canine State of Mind
Natalie Ferris on the artist’s retrospective at Tate Modern and communion with the animal world
Obituary: Steven Campbell
Artist, born 19 March 1953, died 15 August 2007
Chapter Six
The sixth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Sarah Tripp & Simon Buckley
The Four
19 August–23 September 2006, Collins Galery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow