Dear Colleagues
Just a quick update on some of the art you'll be able to see during the
ARLIS Conference in Glasgow 15-18 August.
Undoubted highlights are -
The major David Mach retrospective "Hell bent", which includes a 50-ton
sculpture "Bangers and Mash", specially created for this show. The
installation took three weeks, and involves four burnt-out cars and 150,000
copies of the Glasgow Herald! The show is in Glasgow's Gallery of Modern
Art, a landmark eighteenth-century building where the Lord Provost of
Glasgow will be hosting a civic reception for ARLIS delegates.
The Glasgow showing of "Beck's Futures" at the CCA - newly re-opened
following the 10 million pound make-over of its wonderful Greek Thomson
building. The show will include new work made for the CCA by this year's
winner, Glasgow artist Toby Paterson, as well as work by the other
short-listed artists - David Cotterrell, Kirsten Glass, Paul Hosking, Rachel
Lowe, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Dan Perfect, Neil Rumming, Hideyuki
Sawayanagi, and Tom Wood.
In addition, we'll be taking in visits to -
The Burrell Collection - the gloriously eclectic collection wonderfully
housed in Pollok Park
The Collins Gallery, for a reception and a chance to see the exhibition
"Making journeys" - textiles by Inge Hueber, Ann Keith and Veronica Togneri
The artist-run spaces in the Merchant City, including Free, intermedia, the
Glasgow Print Studio (a chance to see exhibitions by Tanuja Rane, Claire
Barclay, and Turner Prize nominee Christine Borland), and Street Level
Photoworks (showing new work by Kenny Bean)
The Hunterian Art Gallery, a fine permanent collection including the
interior of Margaret Macdonald's and Charles Rennie Mackintosh's own house,
plus the special exhibitions "Intimate friends: Scottish colourists", "The
alchemy of light: David Octavius Hill" and "Mackintosh in France"
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, with its wonderful permanent
collection, including works by Monet, Degas, Rubens, Van Gogh, Matisse, Cour
bet, Pisarro and Whistler
And if it's not too immodest, the Glasgow School of Art "Degree Show 2002
Selection" (Mackintosh Gallery) and "Archive, Artifice, Artifact" advanced
digital textiles from Glasgow and Budapest (Atrium Gallery)
On top of all this, we'll be taking in one of Glasgow's most splendid
features - its public sculpture, starting with the treasures of the 13th
century Cathedral, through to the extraordinary exuberance of the high
victorian sculpture, and including recent public art by the likes of Kenny
Hunter and Douglas Gordon.
If all this sounds tempting, the good news is that it's not too late to
register for the conference - just go to
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/arlis2002/registration.html
In the immortal words of Mrs Doyle - Ah go on!
Looking forward to welcoming you to Glasgow!
All the best
John
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