Issues / #24 Winter 2010
Gray Matters
To celebrate the brilliant life and work of Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December 2019, we republish an article from 2010 by Neil Mulholland that examines the life’s work of the Glasgow artist/writer who chronicled, in words and pictures, the city and the lives of his friends through the lens of a startlingly unique imagination
Sean Edwards and The Maelfa
Artist Sean Edwards reflects on The Maelfa, a shopping centre on the outskirts of Cardiff and focus of Edwards’ new exhbiition. The artist considers the building in relation to its historical and social functions as well as its current decline as a ‘ruin in reverse’
Guy de Cointet
Giles Bailey meets Marie de Brugerolle to talk about the renewed interest in the avant-garde artist’s surreal performances
Report: Internet Art in the Present Tense
Karen Archey examines the rise, fall and rise of art and information technologies
Sculpture Haven
Irene Kernan, director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop announces a big step forward for the organisation
S1 Artspace
S1 Artspace Curator Louise Hutchinson discusses the history of S1’s gallery and studios and the move to a new venue
The Artist ’s Institute
Anthony Huberman discusses the opening of a new institution
NVA
Angus Farquhar, creative director of Glasgow-based public art agency NVA, looks to secure the future of the abandoned, yet inspirational, St Peter’s Seminary
Panel
Catriona Duffy and Lucy McEachan, the curators behind Panel, a recent design initiative based in Glasgow, discuss upcoming projects
Embedded Art and the Perils of Patronage
Former artist Sean Ashton strays into the realms of patronage—and gets more than he bargained for
Clément Rodzielski
Joanna Fiduccia unravels enigma and invention in the work of this young French artist
The Lighter Side of Psychedelia, Pareidolia and Stroboscopy
John Calcutt navigates through the films and recent sound works of Glasgow-based artist Stuart Gurden
In conversation: Tom Burr
American sculptor Tom Burr talks to Steven Cairns about ‘the persona of the artist’, being catagorised within genres, and the influence of great cities on his practice
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Shahryar Nashat
For this issue’s MAP Commission, Shahryar Nashat explores the mediation and negotiation of desire by attentively co-opting the syntax of magazine display
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In Production: Christine Borland
Dominic Paterson finds the artist in production at Glasgow Sculpture Studios
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Emerging: Audrey Reynolds
Gemma Sharpe probes the mixing of incidental and appropriated materials in Audrey Reynolds’ paintings and installations
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Emerging: Patrizio Di Massimo
Rebecca Geldard looks at the work of this young Italian artist
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Review
Books: Katinka Bock
Sabeth Buchmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Kim West, Paraguay Press, Paris, 2010, £22, ISBN 978-2-918252-03-0
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Show and Tell—A Chronicle of Group Material
Edited by Julie Ault, Four Corners, 2010, £22.50, ISBN-13: 978-0956192813
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Elizabeth McAlpine
26 October–20 November, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
23 October–9 January, various venues, Nottingham
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Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980
11 September–28 November, University of Toronto Art Galleries
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