EXHIBITION

GENERATION 25 Years of Contemporary Art Scotland

Scottish National Gallery, 06/28/2014 - 11/02/2014

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The whole of Modern One is given over to GENERATION. An extensive range of work by artists such as Charles Avery, Kate Davis, Jonathan Monk, Lucy McKenzie, Victoria Morton, Jonathan Owen, Julie Roberts and Alison Watt demonstrates the continuing vitality of painting and drawing in Scotland and show how artists frequently use different media in their practice. As well as room-sized installations by Ross Sinclair (Real Life Rocky Mountain), Graham Fagen (Peek-A-Jobby), Torsten Lauschmann (At the Heart of Everything A Row of Holes) and Simon Starling (Burn-Time), a number of newly commissioned installations have been created especially for the exhibition by Claire Barclay, Toby Paterson, Ciara Philips and Alex Dordoy, all made in response to the architecture of the rooms in which they are shown.

The use of moving image has been a significant aspect of the visual artists in Scotland over the last 25 years, and at Modern One, amongst the films and video works on show are Douglas Gordon’s celebrated 24 Hour Psycho, Henry Coombes’ The Bedfords, Smith/Stewart’s Breathing Space and Roderick Buchanan Soda Stream.

The upper galleries of the Academy Building at the Scottish National Gallery features works made by seven artists made between 1990 and 2014. The restaging of Steven Campbell’s On Form and Fiction offers a starting point for the exhibition: this immersive environment of ink and acrylic drawings, with benches and musical soundtrack proved highly influential when it was first shown at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow in 1990.

Another pivotal exhibition restaged here is Martin Boyce’s Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, originally created at Tramway in Glasgow in 2002. Also on show are two video projections by Rosalind Nashashibi, a room of Exposed Paintings by Callum Innes, sculptures and woodcuts by David Shrigley and Christine Borland’s sculptural installation, L’Homme Double, while Karla Black has created a new sculptural hanging piece in response to the Gallery’s neo-classical Sculpture Hall.

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