Currently:
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
PETROSPHERE: Cities rise and cities fall again; words are spoken and retracted; we meet and talk and things will not be the same again.
Venue: Skypark, Space 162B, 8 Elliot Street, Glasgow.
Exhibition runs: Friday 20th April – Monday 7th May
Open everyday during the festival 11am - 6pm
Opening event: Saturday 21st April, 2pm-5pm.
Performance by Ruth Barker: Saturday 21st April, 4pm.
PETROSPHERE is part of a series of projects between 5 artists based in Glasgow, and 5 artists based in Athens. Vibrant, difficult, beautiful, caustic; full of friction and full of life, Athens and Glasgow share strong similarities as catalysts for ideas and places for artists to live and practice. PETROSPHERE becomes a platform to explore this through an exhibition curated by the artists themselves.
The new work developed for this Glasgow International group exhibition features sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, painting, performance, and video. The exhibition has a bold and confident appeal, with individual works that are rich in texture and detail.
Transforming a basement space within Glasgow's Skypark, the artists' individual concerns are presented within the frame of an architectural exhibition structure. Fabricated 'gallery' walls hint towards a misplaced urban plaza, around which the artworks congregate like new citizens. In a variety of visual languages, they trade isolated words, and sometimes whole sentences, with one another. Science fiction / lament / design proposition / myth / colourfield : a logic emerges from their scattered alphabets.
The PETROSPHERE artists are:
Ruth Barker, Antonakis Christodoulou, Helen de Main, Vassilis H, Niall Macdonald, James McLardy, Margarita Myrogianni, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Ciara Phillips and Kostas Sahpazis
PETROSPHERE is part of the Included Programme of Glasgow International, and is supported by Creative Scotland.
Taking place every other year, and combining some of the characteristics of a conventional arts 'biennial' with a more event-based experience, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art is a unique event in the international calendar with one of the most groundbreaking and dynamic presentations of contemporary visual arts practice. GI is a unique event that offers both globally recognised and emerging Glasgow-based artists across the spectrum of the city's art scene a platform to show new work to both national and international audiences while also introducing the work of important international artists. Since its inception in 2005 the Festival has brought together the key organisations in Glasgow's diverse artistic community, presenting unique events and special commissions rooted in the achievements of the local artistic community, while drawing on important international developments in contemporary art.
For more information about the exhibition and the artists click here
Art Lending Library
Conceived and curated by Market Gallery.
ALL is a major new artwork by Walker and Bromwich with contributions from over fifty artists.
The Art Lending Library is a mobile structure housing a diverse collection of artworks that can be enjoyed in your own home.
Catalogue is now live here
Go online to to see the artworks you can borrow throughout the festival.
20th April - 7th May 2012
Micthell Library
Glasgow Room
201 North Street
G3 7DN
Opening times
Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 7:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 7:30pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10 - 5pm
Sunday - Closed
Opening parade
20th of April, George Square.
Muster at 10:30am, parade sets off at 11am.
Join the opening ceremony, a public procession of the Art Lending Library through the streets of Glasgow from George Square to the Mitchell Library. Join artists, librarians and members of the public in launching this revolutionary project. Prize for the best librarain outfit at the parade.
PDA Curtain Showroom
23 - 25 March, 11.00 - 17.00
3rd Floor, 84 Miller Street, Glasgow
The Telfer Gallery opens its doors with a conceptual closing down - bringing you up close and personal with the best in elegance, selection, affordability and creativity, while stock lasts. For three days only, we invite you to indulge yourself in the exquisite offerings of the Telfer gallery, and secure your place on the international art map. Be seen, and enter the discourse! That's right – taking the idea of the 'final curtain' as a point of regeneration and new beginnings, artists Laura Yuile and Orsolya Bajusz are giving the Telfer gallery (an exciting hotbed of cultural activity and small trade – conveniently located on Miller Street, at the bustling heart of Glasgow's city centre) a discursive dust down and the chance for a fresh start!
Featuring newly commissioned works by 21 artists, the exhibition's transformatory intentions are met with the features of instability, uncertainty and loss of control so familiar to artists working in today's harsh reality. From bold patterns to sensational sheers, we offer a range of modern, contemporary and traditional-inspired pieces, sure to transform and enhance even the bleakest of situations. Showcasing the latest styles, colours and textures, the artists seek to explore the boundaries between public and private space, engaging the viewer in a conversation about freedom, value and décor. Shut out the blinding light of day and take refuge in our fine display of contemporary art, as our experienced consultants help your home enter the discourse with style. As a local company, service is our speciality!
Recently:
Artist's for Athens Pride IV
Saturday 17 March, 18.00 - 22.00
The Breeder, 45 Iasonos St, Metaxourgeio, Athens
POLIS
Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
From the stairs looking through the window,
I’m a visitor here.
Walking through the door I’m met by a series of rectilinear metal forms demarcating authoritarian stances. Strips of newsprint like lacerated posters pasted side by side over banal elements of the urban environment.
Repetitious hand-torn gestures moulded over raw metal edges,
Skin over bone.
Glancing out through the window back towards the stairs,
Hard line on soft material.
Closer,
The pale half tones of faded grey, red and yellow hum to the monotonous media machines of the ages,
A white noise from an old television,
No picture here, no text,
A textural broadcast.
Dry fibres remember moisture to form corrugated sheets,
Sugar paper city.
I’m a visitor.
Holding onto the grey metal rail I begin to descend the stairs again.
Steel, screenprint on newsprint, fabric and sand
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
With support from Glasgow City Council
PETROSPHERE
ReMap 3, Athens
13 September - 31 October 2011
Ruth Barker, Antonakis Christodoulou, Helen de Main, Vassilis H, Niall Macdonald, James McLardy, Margarita Myrogianni, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Ciara Phillips and Kostas Sahpazis.
PETROSPHERE is an exchange between 5 artists based in Glasgow: Ruth Barker, Helen de Main, Niall Macdonald, James McLardy and Ciara Phillips; and 5 artists based in Athens: Antonakis Christodoulou,
Vassilis H, Margarita Myrogianni, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, and Kostas Sahpazis, working across the media of sculpture, installation, performance, works on paper, printmaking, photography and video.
All 10 artists will develop new work specifically for the Galini Hotel, Athens. The exhibition extends beyond this appropriated gallery space through live performance, video screening, and a flyposting campaign, responding to the specific built, political, and artistic context of the city.
Both Glasgow and Athens maintain an energetic presence in the international art world, and are respected as artistic hubs with a strong sense of community, innovation, attitude, and confidence. PETROSPHERE consolidates these links through exchange; bringing together different practices and perspectives to create a voluble, fluent, even contrary artistic dialogue, rooted in the specificity of the physical places that the artists occupy.
Opening times:
12/9-18/9 – OPENING WEEK
Opening: Monday, 12/9, 17:00-22:00
Tue-Fri: 17:00-20:30
Sat-Sun: 12:00-20:30
21/9-23/10
Wed-Fri: 17:00-20:30
Sat-Sun: 12:00-20:30
24/10-30/10 – CLOSING WEEK (Parallel to the 3rd Athens Bienniale)
Mon-Fri: 17:00-20:30
Sat-Sun: 12:00-20:30
For more information please visit ReMap
Studio Project 27
Market Gallery, Glasgow
Residency: 26th of July - 25th of August
Exhibition: 27th of August - 24th of September
Helen used one of Market's gallery spaces as a studio for the month of August, producing new work for a solo exhibition that opened 26 August.
She has created a series of screen prints that reference propaganda, political rhetoric and newspaper headlines. These monumental narratives start to show signs of decay as they are layered and reproduced in print, becoming disconnected and meaningless.
Screenprints mounted on steel, 33 x 47cm
For more information please visit Market Gallery
One Over Another
Annuale, Edinburgh
24 June - 17 July
One Over Another is a collaborative paper project with Carla Scott Fullerton, incorporating screen print, collage and cut outs. A number of different works will be appearing in the public realm outside other participating venues over the course of the Annuale.
The Annuale is a festival of independent practice that brings together for one month a group of artist-led projects in Edinburgh. A one-off collective promotional tool facilitated by the Embassy, the Annuale provides a platform for artists and organisers to freely exhibit as a whole, presenting a diverse schedule of events that celebrate grassroots activity within the city.
For more information please visit Annuale
OUT OF RUBBLE
OUT OF RUBBLE reacts to the wake of war — its realities and its representations. The rubble that each war leaves behind shapes today and tomorrow — physically, psychologically, culturally and spiritually. OUT OF RUBBLE presents works by international artists and architects who consider the causes and consequences of rubble, its finality and future, moving from decimation and disintegration to the possibilities of regeneration and recovery.
Facing the failure and wreckage of war, the poet Wislawa Szymborska wrote: "Reality demands that we mention this: Life goes on." Artists meet this demand through responses that are invariably somber, tender and unflinching. They mourn the havoc we wreak and, however imperfectly and inadequately, atone the atrocities we commit. Through images and narratives bound up in the crises of truth, they acknowledge yet strive toward the impossible task of comprehending the incomprehensible. Before and long after the rubble is cleared, they review, anticipate and sometimes lay ground for what needs to be rebuilt.
Lida Abdul, Adel Abidin, Diana Al-Hadid, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Taysir Batniji, Wafaa Bilal, Xu Bing, Liu Bolin, Enrique Castrejon, Lenka Clayton, Helen de Main, Decolonizing Architecture, Jane Dixon, Christoph Draeger, Monica Haller, IDEA, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Jennifer Karady, Mary Kelly, Osman Khan, Anselm Kiefer, Barry Le Va, MadeIn Company, Curtis Mann, Samina Mansuri, Raquel Maulwurf, Julie Mehretu, Simon Norfolk, Cornelia Parker, Walid Ra'ad, Armita Raafat Chicago, Rocío Rodríguez, Thomas Ruff, Elin o'Hara Slavick, Susanne Slavick, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, Pamela Wilson - Ryckman, Tomoko Yoneda.
Edited by Susanne Slavick. Texts by Holly Edwards and Susanne Slavick.
Cover image: Lida Abdul, White House, 2005, ©Lida Abdul, Courtesy of Giorgio Persano, Turin
Available at Chart Art Books or Art Book
RUBBLE STIR
8 - 30 October 2010
Terry Atkinsonm, John Bock, David Burrows, Helen de Main, Erica Eyres, Martin Kippenberger, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Mick Peter, Beagles & Ramsay, Kate V Robertson, Michael Stumpf, Clara Ursitti, Fischli and Weiss and Michael Wilkinson
Then, at the appointed hour, the master engineers fitted up the great hulk, which was moored near the Wharf of Dundas, in the city of Glasgow. It is a miraculous contrivance, built of such a size, and to such a miraculous design, that it rivals the great vessels of the ancients. Its girth exceeds the dredger of Saltash, its height equals the mainmast of HMS Aspic, and its integrity dwarfs the Raft of Grandgousier. The prow and hull were fashioned to withstand a tempest, while inside more than a dozen artists sheltered, all willing play a part in what was to come. Here are the names of the brave and valiant who went into the ship, even as the Greeks did into the Trojan Horse:
Terry Atkinson, John Bock, David Burrows, Helen de Main, Erica Eyres, Martin Kippenberger, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Mick Peter, Beagles & Ramsay, Kate V Robertson, Michael Stumpf, Clara Ursitti, Fischli and Weiss and Michael Wilkinson.
Into the hulk entered these noble artists, all cheerful, gallant, brisk and eager for the fray. And then, from within, there could be heard much debate as to the name that this fine vessel should take. Amongst the propositions were these, and many more besides: Ooze Hive, Ant Heap, Tallow Mill, HMS Lardaceous, The Pinguid, The Panegyric, The Cleggeron Corrective, Old Blubber Forge, The Tripe-Pod of Big Thoughts, Codpiece of the Law, Swarm Brain, Pride of Jetsam, SS Bellipotent, Old Ned Mob, King Ludd, HMS Sausage, Egg and Chips.
Once the clamour subsided, and time had passed, Corporal Rank went in last and shut the sprung iron doors on the inside, thus revealing a name emblazoned proudly on the stern. RUBBLE STIR
Hit - and - Miss
Cement, wax, paper, 60 x 60 x 120cm
Cut - and - Run
Cement, steel, fabric, 45 x 120 x 320cm
Sticks - and - stones
Cement, steel, cabble tie, 30 x 150 x 30cm