Exhibition Programme Archive 2006

Fred Sandback
Exhibition 18 March – 14 May 2006

This exhibition is the first time any of the extraordinary work of prominent American artist Fred Sandback (1943—2003) has been seen in Scotland, and offers a rare opportunity to engage with the particularity of his vision.
 
Fred Sandback is best known for work that uses coloured yarn to trace imaginary planes in space. He came to prominence during
the heyday of American Minimalism, and developed a body of work that is both informed by a signature style and, because of the close interdependence of each piece with the architecture of its location, always different at every showing. His sculpture is intimately concerned with space, with an individual’s understanding of being in a particular space, and the ways in which interventions into the space might alter and extend this understanding. 

Exhibition organised by Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Exhibition supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

Downloads:
• Exhibition guide
• Children’s education guide

Available from the bookshop:
• Publication
• DVD 12 mins
• Poster, postcards

Dada’s Boys
Identity and Play in Contemporary Art
Curated by David Hopkins
Exhibition 27 May – 16 July 2006

Knut Åsdam, Matthew Barney, John Bock, Roderick Buchanan, Marcel Duchamp, Angus Fairhurst / Damien Hirst, Keith Farquhar, Douglas Gordon, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Man Ray, Paul McCarthy, Lee Miller, Francis Picabia, Richard Prince

David Hopkins’s Dada’s Boys used a new idea about the dada work of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray as the basis for an examination of recent art. It re-animates the historical facts of dada with a vision of artistic camaraderie, in-jokes and affectionate competition, played out in sequences of interrelated works of art, and makes a case for dada as a kind of patriarch of twentieth century art, albeit an ironic and paradoxical one. Dada is more usually associated with nihilism and anti-art yet, acknowledging its extraordinarily powerful influence (where would art be now without Duchamp?), Dada’s Boys stresses that the attitude of negation for which dada is well known goes hand in hand with a determination to produce a new kind of art, and asks whether it might be possible for dada, or at least the part of it represented here, to have given rise to a lineage of artists, mostly male, whose art is concerned with developing anarchic but
probing explorations of identity.

New commission supported by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Downloads:
• Exhibition guide

Available from the bookshop:
• Publication
• Limited edition print: Keith Farquhar
• DVD 12 mins
• Poster, postcards

Marijke van Warmerdam
First Drop
Exhibition 27 July – 17 September 2006

Marijke van Warmerdam is known for art which surprises the viewer with unexpected poetry. Often depicting strange and inexplicably wonderful moments – a pancake briefly masquerading as the moon, a puddle stirred into miraculous, shimmering life – it imposes itself on the mind and memory with a potent exuberance.

This, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the UK, is a specially-selected sequence of new and recent photographs, sculpture and film. With a typically light touch, the work combines a deceptively naive approach to the act of seeing with straightforward strategies such as dramatic shifts of scale, doubling, reflection, rhythmic repetition or surprising juxtapositions to urge us to look with our eyes wide open.

Exhibition organised in collaboration with  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Exhibition supported by Mondriaan Foundation and The Henry Moore Foundation with additional support from The Royal Netherlands Embassy

Downloads:
• Exhibition guide

Available from the bookshop:
• Publication
• DVD 12 mins
• Poster, postcards

Callum Innes
From Memory
Exhibition 30 September – 19 November 2006

Callum Innes is known for paintings created through a process that involves the repeated removal as well as application of paint. Calm and authoritative when exhibited, they nevertheless bear the traces of the controlled chaos of their production, and the creative and destructive interaction of paint and turpentine.

This exhibition brought together a selection of Innes’s work from the last fifteen years, from early works made in 1991 to new paintings completed earlier this year. Including examples from each of the different series in which Innes works, the exhibition offered an opportunity to trace their evolution and inter-dependence, and to gain an understanding of the development of Innes’s singularly rigorous visual language.

Downloads:
• Exhibition guide

Available from the bookshop:
• Publication
• Limited edition print Sold out
• DVD 12 mins
• Poster, postcards

Christine Borland
Preserves
Exhibition 2 December 2006 – 28 January 2007

Christine Borland makes art which deals with the body, and with our emotional, imaginative, medical and institutional sense of self. Her practice is hugely varied, yet it is united by a number of constants. Chief among these is an insistent interrogation of objects and situations which shed light on the junction between the fact of the body and the more imaginative or conceptual construct  of the self: the mechanics and the mystery of human existence.

This exhibition brings together a selection of existing, recent, and newly-commissioned work, offering an opportunity to trace the
development of Borland’s ideas

New commission supported by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Exhibition supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

This exhibition toured to The Collection, Lincoln

Downloads:
• Exhibition guide

Available from the bookshop:
• Publication
• Limited edition print
• DVD 12 mins
• Poster, postcards