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From Death to Death and Other Small Tales

28 March 2013 at 6pm

For our March event, we will be back on home territory visiting From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One.

This remarkable exhibition brings together works from one of the foremost private holdings of modern and contemporary art, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, with major works from the Gallery of Modern Art’s collection.

From Death to Death includes a range of works that focus on the body as a theme in 20th and 21st-century art practice, as well as providing a new context for both collections, with artworks often staged in surprising juxtapositions.

Since 1994, private collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos has amassed a body of iconic modern and contemporary artworks that collectively express a personal vision and sensibility. Artists represented within the exhibition include Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Gober, Paul McCarthy, Ernesto Neto, Mike Kelley and Sarah Lucas.

Keith Hartley, Chief Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art, will join us in to discuss selected works in the exhibition and will give an insight into the process of collaborating with a private collector. 

 

WASPS Albion Road Studio Visit

22 July 2010 at 6pm

This month, we will be visiting WASPS studios on Albion Road to join artists Kevin McPhee, Katherine Aarrestad, Louise Fraser and Sharon Quigley in discussion about their practice and recent work.

Kevin McPhee works intuitively and uses a combination of lo-fi materials, found objects and paint to create installations that are evocative of a self-generated mythology. Sculptures manifest through the performance of making and are evocative of a shared belief.

Katherine Aarrestad focuses upon the translation of meaning through different points in time. She uses visual subject matter that is drawn from the past and creates a viewing experience which is very much of the present. Obscure visions of reality are created by juxtaposing images with titles which open up an alternative narrative for the viewer to read.

Louise Fraser creates work in response to the visual surroundings she lives in and looks for ways to translate the idea of architecture, nature, the process of change and the story within. Her work is an attempt to bring us closer to our ever-changing, often overlooked closest surroundings and the idea that we are honed and moulded by our environment.

Sharon Quigley explores the body, with its multitude of functions and its relationship with the material properties of paint, to explore subjects of physicality, intimacy and sensation. Working directly onto paper or oil primed boards to create intricately patterned surfaces, she fuses together a myriad of micro graphic and cellular structures to cultural references from Japanese Kimono designs, arabesques and nineteenth-century engravings, in an attempt to explore and reflect the correlation that exists between them all.

Over the last 30 years, WASPS has grown to become one of Scotland’s largest arts organisations, providing affordable studio space to over 750 artists each year at 17 locations throughout Scotland. Albion Road Studios is known as ‘Citizens Studios’ and has 22 studios over two floors for up to 30 artists at any one time.