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By MARTIN BOyCE
Glasgow-based artist Martin Boyce has solo shows at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New york, until
13 October, and at the Ateliers hermès, seoul, and the New Museum, New york, in November
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ANdy wARhOL ROdERICk
On a personal level warhol was one of the first
BuChANAN
artists I became aware of. I remember going to the
local library when I was at school and finding the
Histrionics is one of a
one pop art book they had. I think the interesting
series of GoMA shows dealing
thing for me with warhol is that as time’s gone
with political issues.
on, his work is still opening up, it’s still so
here Roderick Buchanan’s
relevant to society, it never tires. This exhibition
exhibition is on the issue of
includes a room of the silver clouds, and it’s just
sectarianism. At the centre
completely beautiful – really incredible. In a way,
of this show is a sensitive,
by rights, the work should have fizzled out or
bold film that focuses on
succumbed to the rigours of time and taste, but it
two Glasgow flute bands, one
just continues to gather more weight and depth with
Loyalist and one Republican.
every showing.
In keeping with Buchanan’s
long-term investigation
ANdy wARhOL, uNTIL 7 OCTOBER, sue Tompkins, untitled (detail), 2005,
into this subject, the work
NATIONAL GALLERy Of sCOTLANd, EdINBuRGh
72 sheets of typewritten text on
unfolds into portraiture,
newsprint, folded, 2 plastic spa bottles,
www.NATIONALGALLERIEs.ORG
1 blue, 1 red on shelf, dimensions
affiliation and identity, the
variable. Courtesy the artist and Modern
similarities of difference and
Institute/Toby webster Ltd, Glasgow
the differences in similarity.
This is a major work. As the
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artist himself has said,
‘It will not be about the
suE TOMpkINs subject: it is the subject.’
sue works with drawing,
Histrionics – new work
painting, collage and
by roderick bucHanan,
assemblage. There’s an assured
uNTIL 28 OCTOBER,
GALLERy Of MOdERN ART
or determined fragility and
(GOMA), GLAsGOw
awkwardness present that’s
www.GLAsGOwMusEuMs.COM
hard to pin down.
The other aspect of her
practice that I’m really
interested in is her spoken- 5
word performances. It’s a
combination of the language
fERGus
that she creates through
control, 2007, dir Anton Corbijn
hENdERsON
rhythm, repetition and
abstraction, coupled with
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Although henderson’s book is
her delivery and personality.
initially off-putting (rolled
you get a real sense of speech
CONTROL
pig’s head), once you get
becoming very sculptural and
into it there are lots of
physical. As she delivers
great things to cook! The
I haven’t seen control (the new Joy division movie), and repeats, the words and
food is really very simple.
but my experience with factory Records parallels letters come to occupy the
It’s like looking round the
the warhol experience. when I was around thirteen room and start to change
back of something. It’s never
we’d spend our lunch hours flicking through record shape. Rhythm and knowledge!
about a typical cut of meat
sleeves in woolworths. I became transfixed by the
– you wouldn’t find fillet of
sleeve of unknown Pleasures, the Joy division album,
suE TOMpkINs
3 OCTOBER - 11 NOvEMBER
beef, but you would find pig’s
until I eventually stole it and put it on my wall.
ThE shOwROOM, LONdON
trotters – but rather it’s
It wasn’t until years later that I actually heard
www.ThEshOwROOM.ORG looking at what’s been left
the record! I thought 24 Hour Party People really
behind. It’s a whole approach
captured the Mancunian humour, but I also found
to eating, a manifesto for
it moving. I’m very interested to see how control
a way of living disguised as
fits into that whole history. from what I’ve seen,
a cookbook.
it’s focused on a more melancholic and personal
narrative, with the music hovering at the edges.
fERGus hENdERsON, beyond
nose to tail, BLOOMsBuRy
control Is RELEAsEd ON 5 OCTOBER IN ThE uk
www.BLOOMsBuRy.COM
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