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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Old and new at Glasgow Print Studios. Amongst the clamour of almost 30 high-profile international shows and artist-led projects at the first Glasgow International, Jake and Dinos Chapman have chosen an unusually subdued setting to show their latest series of black-and-white prints. However, if the format appears traditional, the content remains as unsettling as ever. Children’s dot-to-dot games distort and attempt to disguise the phantasmagorical and violent imagery, playing hide and seek with the viewer.Four cynically titled miniature tableaux, depicting scenes echoing the destroyed work Hell, accompany the prints, and the entire show displays an admirable level of restraint. Which, for curator Francis McKee, apparently suggests a particularly “English” development to the artists’ maturing work. Three video monitors display new work by Glaswegian Douglas Gordon. Revisiting familiar territory with a study of his own hands “in perpetual and perplexed self-conflict”, the works form part of a continuing project which records the artist’s own physical and psychological development. However, despite a six-year absence from exhibiting in his hometown, for some the lack of apparent change may disappoint. Jake And Dinos Chapman, Douglas Gordon - When The Sun Goes Down is at Glasgow Print Studios until 28 May 05.
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