Tag: Scotland

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…

  • William Hogarth

    Musée du Louvre, Paris 20 October 2006-8 January 2007 The great 18th-century caricaturist, William Hogarth, who signed himself ‘Britophil’, caught the mood with flattering – if double-edged – national stereotypes. People loved his beer-swilling, roast-beef-guzzling, four-square Englishmen, the ‘dread and…

  • Jon Schueler: A Painter of Our Time

    ACA Galleries, New York 21 January-18 February 2006 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 26 January-11 March 2006 The American Expressionist painter Jon Schueler (1916-92) was recently the subject of growing interest on both sides of the Atlantic. When he died in New…

  • Celtic Vision

    John Bellany: A Scottish Odyssey Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg 16 June-3 September 2006 John Bellany’s (b.1942) paintings are among the most confrontational humanistic paintings produced in Britain in recent history. Layered with references to the Expressionistic tradition in art (Bosch, Breughel,…