Glasgow International : On the fringes
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Another sub theme in the GI is the strong desire to mine the archive…and preserve cultural material.
A collection of
historical works from the American artist and activist, Emory Douglas’ time with the Black Panthers is exhibited at the Kendall Koppe…
The launch of Alan Kane’s book documenting the photographs and clippings on the walls of a Glasgow
institution – the Val D’Oro restaurant in Trongate (just around the corner from The Modern Institute). Its not only the material in this archive of Glasgow and the Italian family who own it, but the way it has been displayed and catalogued on the
cafe walls that is of interest and presented in this publication by Kane.
We discovered Henry Coombes’ compelling film at the House For Art Lovers (Macintosh inspired), actually the gardeners sheds nearby, a terrific location and site for his
work I am the Architect, This is not Happening, This is Unacceptable – a magical hallucination set inside the mind and work of the ‘architect’ who finds himself in the menacing and strange world of
‘art’. This terrific black and white film, with its nod to early Bauhaus costumes, theatre and films, plus movies such as The Fountainhead, Dr Caligari’s
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Image: Henry Coombes
I Am The Architect, This Not Happening, This is Unacceptable, 2012
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