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POLIS

Intermedia Gallery

Exhibition open 4 - 18 February

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.

 

 

Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

With support from Glasgow City Council

 

 

Recently:

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