30 March 2017
This month we are heading to The Fruitmarket Gallery to explore and discuss the work of Mark Wallinger. This is a two-part exhibition, shown at the Fruitmarket and the DCA in Dundee.
Mark Wallinger has been making art and exhibiting since the 1980s. You may be familiar with his piece, Ecce Homo, a marble resin life-sized statue of Jesus Christ which became the first sculpture to be mounted on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999. His Turner Prize-winning installation of 2007, State Britain, was a painstaking recreation of Brian Haw’s anti-war peace camp in Parliament Square.
For his new exhibition, Wallinger presents his id Paintings (2015-16), a recent body of monumental paintings made entirely by the artist’s hands and black acrylic paint. Part-painting, part-performance, he used both hands simultaneously, the left mirroring the right. Also on show, will be his ‘I’ self-portrait paintings, continuing his on-going fascination with self-portraiture. In addition, there will be a selection of works from the last 10 or so years including the film Sleeper (2004).
18 March 2009 at 6.30pm
This months Spin: Glasgow travels to Stirling to see a solo exhibition of work by Graham Fagen.
Born in Glasgow in 1966, Graham Fagen lives and works in Scotland. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Kent Institute of Art and Design. Fagen’s work focuses on the means of communication within a culture, and how it is compromised or transformed when taken out of context. Many of his projects have explored the notion of cultural identity and meaning. In 2007, Fagen was commissioned by Glasgow Museums to present downpresser, a major solo exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) for the commemoration of the abolition of slavery. He gained great critical acclaim for Killing Time, his collaborative project with Graham Eatough of Suspect Culture at DCA, Dundee. Fagen has previously exhibited at London’s Imperial War Museum, including Theatre (2000), the ICA and V&A as well as extensively throughhout the world.
somebodyelse is a solo exhibition of portraits by Fagen including a newly commissioned work. The portraits in somebodyelse combine real and imagined figures in order to explore Scotland’s contemporary and historic culture. Works from previous photographic series by Fagen are also on show.
