Category Archives: Bareface Magazine

Lets Collaborate

Posted on 1 May 2012 by Bareface

Bareface will be up rooting from its home in Edinburgh and moving through to Glasgow, to sharpen its pencils and partake in study. This does not mean that Bareface will halt its creative endeavours, but more so it shall stand … Continue reading →

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Left To My Own Devices – Inspace

Posted on 29 August 2011 by INTOFORM

A trip to Edinburgh’s Inspace gallery is a little like going to the Apple store. Filled with futuristic technologies, you’ll probably leave wanting to take everything with you, and the staff there know everything there is to know about what’s … Continue reading →

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David Mach: coat hangers and collages

Posted on 19 August 2011 by INTOFORM

Coat-hanger crucifixes, a matchstick Jesus and Satan, and kitsch collages of biblical scenes form this audacious and intense exhibition of the Scottish Turner-nominated artist David Mach at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre (David Mach: Precious Light, ends 16 October). The exhibition … Continue reading →

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Ingrid Calame’s colour maps – the Fruitmarket Gallery

Posted on 15 August 2011 by INTOFORM

Making an art out of the ground we walk on, American artist Ingrid Calame produces beautifully abstract drawings and paintings with such meticulousness. Currently on show at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery (ends 9 October), these works – made between 1994 and … Continue reading →

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The poet of the mirror and the architect of space: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Peter Zumthor at the Serpentine

Posted on 10 August 2011 by INTOFORM

London’s Serpentine Gallery is currently combining the work of renowned Italian Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto (in The Mirror of Judgement, ends 17 September) – which consumes the entire gallery space in a site-specific, space altering installation – alongside the … Continue reading →

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An unguarded snapshot of human experience – Nan Goldin at London’s Sprovieri Gallery

Posted on 25 July 2011 by INTOFORM

Nan Goldin is most famed for her expressive documentary photographs that are imbued always with a rawness that has the ability to depict human life in its uninhibited, despondent and seedy reality. Documenting 1980s New York – drag queens, drugs, … Continue reading →

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Issue IV: Designed Cities

Posted on 25 July 2011 by Bareface

We are proud to present Bareface Magazine Issue IV! You can click the above image to read the magazine online.

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Micro-architecture and the ghost of artworks past: Atelier 37.2 at the MAK Museum

Posted on 14 July 2011 by INTOFORM

The French ‘micro-architecture’ firm Atelier 37.2 created an original installation for Vienna’s MAK Museum, entitled The Space of Art. Using old transport crates that once transported works from the Museum’s impressive collection of contemporary art, Atelier 37.2 transformed these into compartments for visitors to … Continue reading →

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Art, language and metropolitan dystopia – Ed Ruscha’s ‘On the Road’

Posted on 9 July 2011 by INTOFORM

Currently on show at LA’s Hammer Museum is Ed Ruscha: On the Road (until 2 October), an exhibition that amalgamates photography, paintings, and drawings with language in a documentation of America’s changing cultural landscape. Taking inspiration from On the Road, Jack … Continue reading →

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Joan Miró to Yayoi Kusama; or Surrealism to surrealism

Posted on 26 June 2011 by INTOFORM

Confused? So was I, at first, when after having spent a couple of hours at the Tate Modern’s summer blockbuster retrospective on the Spanish Surrealist Joan Miró, I entered the Victoria Miro gallery to be told that Yayoi Kusama’s work … Continue reading →

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