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NOW

27 April 2017

NOW is the first in a series of exhibitions which brings together contemporary art from Scotland with works by leading international artists. Over the next three years, through a series of six exhibitions, NOW will explore and celebrate the role of artists in society and the alternative ways of seeing and understanding the world through their work.

The centerpiece of the first show is Nathan Coley’s The Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship, Edinburgh, 2004. This iconic work features 286 sculptures which depict every place of worship listed in the 2004 edition of the Edinburgh Yellow Pages directory, offering a snapshot of the city at a particular moment in time through its places of religious meeting.

A key theme running through the exhibition is place and its relationship to time. Peter Doig’s imagined landscape is shown with Jock McFadyen’s real landscape of Carlton Hill recalled from memory. Rivane Neuenschwander’s Colheita Harvest 2013-2014 is a portrait of a London community through an installation of 365 shopping lists collected from supermarkets.

Performance Documents 1980-1987/2013 by Mona Hatoum presents rare archival material documenting the actions and performances she produced during the 1980s. And The Acrobat c.1982 by Peter Horobin, documents performances and interventions he did whilst on a month-long residency in Kassel under the persona of The Acrobat.

Joining us to discuss the works on show will be the curators of the exhibition, Lucy Askew and Julie-Ann Delaney.

 

Documentalist

25 February 2010 at 6pm

This month, we will explore the Collective Gallerys latest exhibition Documentalist – an international group show presenting work that explores blurred boundaries between fiction and reality through drawing, sculpture and film.

Chris Evans deliberately muddles the roles of artist and patron, genius and muse. Evans will show two sculptural pieces Warm Hermaphrodite and Repeat Horizon, both of which form visual motifs created by Evans in response to interviews with four elderly Italian politicians. All were asked about sacrifice and after a life in the public eye, on the choices they made.

Deimantas Narkevicius will show his film Revisiting Solaris. Trained as a sculptor, Narkevicius has developed a practice, based on video and film that explores fascinating, problematic and overlooked passages of recent post-communist European history, including his personal history of living and working in Lithuania during the soviet era and after.

Suzanne Treister’s practice deals with notions of identity, history, power and the hallucinatory. She will present Alchemy, a series of works which transcribe front pages of international daily newspapers into alchemical drawings, reframing the world as a place animated by strange forces, powers and belief systems.

Joining us to explore individual works and to discuss each artist’s relationship to the title Documentalist will be Kate Gray, Director of The Collective Gallery.

The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing

26 November 2009 at 6pm

The Fruitmarket Gallery celebrates the contemporary resurgence in drawing, featuring eleven young international artists including Jan Albers, Michael Borremans, Marc Brandenburg, Fernando Bryce, Kate Davis and David Haines.

In the Western tradition, drawing was the foundation of art education, the essential discipline underlying all others. In the second half of the 20th century, a more academic approach to art-making threatened the authority of drawing as a pure art form; as a result, many schools cast it out as a throwback to past times. Recently drawing has returned to the mainstream as a cheap and autonomous activity, a democratically available form of image making, uniquely capable of intimate, spontaneous self-revelation.

This exhibition of new work by eleven highly acclaimed young international artists includes small, intricately-crafted pencil drawings; large scale installations in which the ‘drawn’ lines are made from masking tape; and drawings that mutate into animation.

Spin-Off Trip to Frieze Art Fair, Scope, Zoo Art Fair and Pilot 2004

15-17 October 2004

Friday 15th October to Sunday 17th October 2004 was a very special weekend in London with four big contemporary art fair: Frieze, Scope, Zoo and Pilot. From top class international artists to young artists that have yet to find representation, and from the biggest galleries in the world to independent curators. The programme included:

FRIEZE ART FAIR
Approximately 150 of the worlds top contemporary galleries were on hand for the second instalment of Londons new international art fair, housed in architect David Adjaye’s custom-designed structure in Regent’s Park.

ZOO
Less commercial, and set up as an alternative to Frieze, the Zoo fair featured 22 London galleries, many from the East End, that have been in operation for three years or less. The fair was organized by London dealer David Risley and independent curator Soraya Rodriguez, and took place in a pavilion at the London Zoo. The fair itself was non-profit, designed to raise money for Risley’s new Museums Fund, which supports museum acquisitions of works by emerging artists.

SCOPE LONDON
This American collective of artists and curators invited approximately 35 international galleries to show work in the Melia White House Hotel in Regent’s Park; that is, in the hotel rooms, showers and beds.

PILOT
One hundred international curators, critics, artists and collectors were asked to each nominate one artist without commercial representation that they held in high regard. These artists took part in PILOT, an event hosted at Limehouse Town Hall, a spectacular Victorian building in the heart of East Londons artist and gallery quarter.

We introduced members to an array of galleries, curators and artists while we were doing the circuit, gradually building up a picture of the world of contemporary collecting, and making the experience more digestible and relaxed. In addition, we attended a number of openings including Expander at the Royal Academy and Ori Gersht at Andrew Mummery at the Tea Building in Shoreditch (the funky new home for several London galleries).

Bus to TEA BUILDING approx 6.30-10pm
We have been invited to the private view at the Andrew Mummery Gallery of Ori Gersht‘s work. There will be other gallery openings in this new and happening gallery complex in Shoreditch. There is will be time for food and drink in the acclaimed T Restaurant, before we head back into town at 10pm. The bus will stop at a tube station and drop the rest of us at the hotel.

Sunday 17th October
FRIEZE ART FAIR from 11am
Approximately 150 of the world’s top contemporary galleries are on hand for the second instalment of London’s new international art fair, housed in architect David Adjaye’s custom-designed structure in Regent’s Park. Among the special projects is a dance club on the fair grounds designed by the Los Angeles-based collective Los Super Elegantes in collaboration with New York artist Assume Vivid Astro Focus (aka Eli Sudbrack). We will be chatting to the Scottish galleries, doggerfisher and Modern Institute, and hopefully a few more besides. There is a lot to see, and your day pass will allow you to come and go all day.