ACHIM LENGERER, HIROFUMI SUDA, STINA WIRFELT

Invisible Square is a three person exhibition presenting the work of Achim Lengerer, Hirofumi Suda and Stina Wirfelt. An overlapping theme between the different practices is the questioning of narratives and abstraction of language.

Achim Lengerer explores the complexity of language, thematized in his performances or spatialized within his installations. Stina Wirfelt works mainly with video; investigating construction of meaning through her exploration of the language of the moving image. Hirofumi Suda’s work explores systems involved in the reconstruction of an absent narrative. His practice is a playful mirroring of the fictional and the real materialised through the experimental combination of fragments and details.

Achim Lengerer was a researcher at the Jan-van-Eyck-Academie, NL, in 2005/06.Since then Lengerer has founded several collaborative projects, most recently voiceoverheard, a collaboration with artist colleague Dani Gal. He lives and works in Berlin.

Hirofumi Suda completed the MFA program at Glasgow of Art in 2009. Recent exhibitions include set up and go, Artnews Projects, Berlin. He lives and works in Glasgow.
Stina Wirfelt graduated with an MFA from Malmö Art Academy 2007 and was an exchange student at the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art (2005) and University of Illinois at Chicago(2006). In 2008 she participated in LUX AAP in London. She lives and works in Glasgow.
 

/ Walead Beshty / Ann Bowman / Will Bradley / Ruth Buchanan / Kate Davis / Kathryn Elkin / Embassy / Laurie Figgis / Michael Fullerton / Generator Projects / Steve Helm / David Hoyle / Anthony Iles / Fiona Jardine / Rachel Koolen / Anna McCarthy / Jack McConville / Dawn Mellor/ No.w.here / Vanessa O’Reilly / Mika Rottenberg / Kari Stewart / Michael Stumpf / Stephen Sutcliffe / Cara Tolmie / Sarah Tripp / Marina Vishmidt / Monika Vykoukal /
 

In 2009 Transmission celebrates 25 years as an artist run organisation. This large group show combines a plethora of artistic aspirations of a group of artists who have shown at the gallery alongside younger or international artists who will show for the first time.

The invited artists work in a range of artistic media and the show represents commitment to providing a platform for new and developing talent as a long-term objective for Transmission to establish relationships between artists as well as one off events that examine and develop this potential.

As well as the exhibition that takes place in both galleries at 28 King St three events will take place:

David Hoyle will be presenting a new one-off performance on Friday 16th October at 7PM. This event will be free and unticketed with a limited capacity.

No.w.here the artist’s film and video organisation will be holding a two day Bolex 16mm film workshop and screening at the gallery on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th November 12-8pm. This will provide technical tuition and discussion and includes all materials and processing. There will be 12 places at a significantly reduced cost of £60. Please phone to confirm a place before Wednesday 21st October with full payment in advance.

Finally on Saturday 7th November 3pm to 10 pm- The Embassy, Generator and Transmission will host Present Enough- A discussion on artist run activity with Monika Vykoukal and Neil Mulholland. All three galleries will present brief introduction to their organisations as well as material from their archives. The evening will end with a performance by The Deliberate Crumbs.

Transmission would like to take this opportunity to thank all of its members and supporters of the last 25 years and invite them to join us for a drink at the opening and afterwards at
Mono, King’s Court, King St from 10 pm till 1am.

Transmission would like to thank Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop , The Mondriaan Foundation, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery & Pasquale Leccese , Team Gallery and Sorcha Dallas.
Transmission is supported by Culture and Sport Glasgow and The Scottish Arts Council
 

New work by Klaus Weber

Transmission Gallery presents new work by Klaus Weber for his first solo show in Scotland.

Klaus Weber will present a collection of bee paintings, stretched canvases that have been defecated on by ‘cleansing’ bees in Berlin in 2009. Accompanying the paintings is a catalogue published by Transmission Gallery/ Koenig Books, in which Tom Holert’s essay records the bee painting process and the subsequent proposal for an action to cause Scottish worker bees to swarm on the statue of Adam Smith in Edinburgh.

The paintings interrelate animal and artistic process as production and exchange, relaying Smith’s intellectual legacy from the local (as chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University in 1752) to the global with the beehive as a symbol of the industry on which Adam Smith believed progress was based.

The paintings and publication borrow from the principles developed by Bernard Mandeville amongst others. The show relates to developments in Weber’s growing body of works that undermine the metaphorical and actual power of a functionalist rationality in a variety of media. In doing this, Weber repetitively uses images of nature and explores the sustainable potential of the untamable in an anarchic and humorous manner.

Weber received his Master of Fine Art and Visual Communication from the Berlin University of Arts in 1995. The artist has participated in group shows such as Ecstasy: In and about Altered States, The Geffen Contemporary Art MOCA, Los Angeles; Manifesta 7; and at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Recently his work was exhibited at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2009), Secession Gallery, Vienna (2008), Bonner Kunstverein, (2008); at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2007); and at Hayward Gallery, London (2007).

Transmission would like to thank Herald St, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Goethe Institut Glasgow and Koenig Books.

Transmission Summer Party 2009

Please Join Transmission for this year summer party:

TROPICAL JOY

at: Poloc Cricket Club

three quid entrance

Live in concert: THE GUMMY STUMPS

BBQ, disaster DJ's and a few new dance moves.

Travelling by car:

From the north/east:

Take the M77 turnoff (junction 22) on the M8 after crossing the Kingston Bridge, turn left off the M77 at junction 2.....

From the south:

Turn right off the M77 at junction 2 .....onto Barrhead Road, at the roundabout turn left following signs to the Burrell Collection.  Enter Pollok Country Park via the entrance immediately past Pollokshaws West railway station. Pollokshaws West railway station is right beside the entrance to Pollok Park on Pollokshaws Road.

Travelling by train:

Trains on route 19 out of Glasgow Central Station to, variously, East Kilbride, Barrhead, Kilmarnock, Auchinleck and New Cumnock stop at Pollokshaws West at regular intervals - please check in each case that the train you are boarding does actually stop at Pollokshaws West!

A screening of Eastinternational 2009

Transmission Gallery presents a selection of this year’s video program from EASTinternational. EASTinternational is an important open submission biennial exhibition that takes place on NUCA’s campus in Norwich. It forms part of Contemporary Arts Norwich, which celebrates the visual arts in venues across the city and offers a year round programme of events, commissions, artist support initiatives, education and audience related activities.

The selectors for EAST in 2009 were Michal Kaczynski and Lukasz Gorczyca of Raster gallery, Warsaw and Mel Ramsden and Mike Baldwin of Art & Language.

Selected artists in EAST09 are: Adam Burton, Agnieszka Kurant, Andrea Büttner, Andrew Cranston, Angela Bartram, Anna Okrasko, Barbara Walker, Corin Sworn, David Jacques, Elizabeth McAlpine, Ewa Axelrad, Gernot Wieland, Grace Schwindt, Hiromi Kawasaki, James Hopkins, John Russell, Julie Masterton, Kate Corder, Laure Prouvost, Marlene Haring, Mervyn Arthur, Olaf Brzeski, Robin Tarbet, Stuart Whipps, Ursula Mayer.

The screening will be followed by a talk from Corin Sworn, a recent graduate from the Master Program at Glasgow School of Art. Corin will speak about her practice contribution to Eastinternational.

Transmission Annual Member's Show

Every year Transmission Gallery offers all of its members the opportunity to participate in its Annual Members Show.  With no limits to the size of submitted work and all media accepted – the members show promises a whole range of contributions - from that of students, to work from more established artists.

In addition to the Member’s Show in the main space on 45 King Street, we will be hosting FUNRAISER a Fundraiser for the SAC/National Lottery Capital Grant Fundraising Appeal on the 4th Floor, 48 King Street from 9PM -1AM.

Membership is open to everyone. Forms are available from the gallery, or register here on-line.


TRANSMISSION would like to thank all of its members
 

At the Sculpture studio

On Saturday 27th of June Transmission Gallery will launch a publication accompanying Alex Gross' solo show 'Swamp Thing' (Swamp Thing, 16pages includes an essay by Giles Bailey, distributed for 5£).

The launch will take place at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios parking lots wilderness in 145 Kelvinhaugh Street from 5 pm till sunset.

There will be spit-roasted lamb, live music, bring your own drinks.

'Swamp Thing' is a commission publication as part of Transmission Gallery's Scottish Solo Show 2009,  three Committee members of the gallery were invited by the artist to visit La Tomatina in Buñol, Spain. The purpose of the visit was to document their personal expereince in the form of photos, video, and writing. Glasgow based artist Alex Gross constructed for his exhibition earlier in Transmission, an off-site temporary artwork in a Glasgow parkland.

The publication is designed by Robert Johnston.

For further information write to:

info@transmissiongallery.org

Phillip Lai

Transmission Gallery presents an exhibition of new video work by Phillip Lai. Produced in the upper gallery at Transmission and the artist’s studio, a two- screen presentation talks about remote relations, thresholds of the imaginary and garbled translations of visual information. Taking from diverse sources the ‘media alterities' explored in these works connect with Lai's work to date, extending from interests in spatial and temporal deferral and schemas of force and inhabitation. An associative flux in the works here allow them to variously offer an estranged premise and/or that of a kind of resilience, resistance and comedy.

The works themselves propose a correspondence, between spectral, invocatory event and possible echoes in shifting and manipulated substance. Introduction presents controlled episodes involving singular and paired pyrotechnic charges – issuing the ethereal materiality of a fictive speculation – whilst the mud ablutions of Jargon hand back these prospects to a kind of material speech.

Phillip Lai was born in Kuala Lumpur, in 1969. He currently lives and works in London.
 

Karen Cunningham, Yuen Fong Ling, Sophie Mackfall, Ralo Mayer

Preparatory Ways is a group show bringing together the disparate practices of four artists. The distinct lines of enquiry presented by these artists practices map a mass of interwoven research and exploratory approaches to making. Transmission hopes to invite a natural interplay between the works, engaging experimental artistic vocabularies to present an exciting dialogue within the gallery context.

A text by Bridget S. Prince will accompany the exhibition.

12-6 on Sunday 19th April is a curated artist’s brunch where the Preparatory Ways artists will present a varied selection of talks and screenings opening up their individual practices and drawing parallels within their research.

Karen Cunningham is a Glasgow based artist who graduated from the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art in 2003. Karen has just returned from the Scottish Arts Council Residency in Amsterdam.

Yuen Fong Ling completed the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art in 2007. He lives and works in Salford and is working on a Fine Art PhD at the University of Lincoln.

Sophie Mackfall was born in York and now lives and works in Glasgow. Sophie graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2008.

Ralo Mayer lives and works in Vienna. Ralo studied comparative literature and conceptual art in Vienna and Copenhagen and now works as an artist and translator for the Science fiction magazine Multiplex Fiction.

An Artists Brunch

To accompany the Preparatory Ways exhibition this event developed on some of the ideas in the exhibition and gave the artists an opportunity to discuss their exhibited work and to present other activity out with the show itself in the 4th floor 48 King St space.

Karen Cunningham: Video Installation with Sculpture
Part document/ part artwork this looped video and sculpture installation was presented for the first time at this event.

Yuen Fong Ling: Film screening, (working title) The Techniques of the Observer, 2009.
This single monitor looped presentation was a document of a life class event at Gregynog, Wales in 2008 to compliment "A Survey of Models looking at Artists" the artist’s presented work in the exhibition and demonstrated the performance element of Yuen Fong Ling’s practice.

Sophie Mackfall: Artist’s Talk

Ralo Mayer: Tele-presentation recorded in Vienna
Ralo Mayer and  Krõõt Juurak recorded a tele-presentation in Vienna, as part of a rehearsal/reading for a performance at Brut Vienna theatre. The performance is about the space age ruin Biosphere 2 and represents another part of the same research complex as Mayer's work presented in the gallery.
 

Studio Projects

A series of successive overlapping studio projects by four Glasgow based artists.

Working in the space for three weeks Rickie McNeill, Rallou Panagiotou, Helena Ohman McCardle and Salomeh Grace each presented a one week show.
This hoped to offer a context for dialogue between these four varied practices and an informal environment for making outwith the white cube.
 

Studio Projects

A series of successive overlapping studio projects by four Glasgow based artists.

Working in the space for three weeks Rickie McNeill, Rallou Panagiotou, Helena Ohman McCardle and Salomeh Grace each presented a one week show.
This hoped to offer a context for dialogue between these four varied practices and an informal environment for making outwith the white cube.

Alex Gross

In this the 2009 Scottish Solo Exhibition, Glasgow-based artist Alex Gross made an exhibition of two parts. ‘Swamp Thing’, was an off-site temporary artwork in a Glasgow parkland; and running simultaneously to this was an installation of new work in the gallery premises.

Gross challenges the position of the spectator in an often-absurd exploration of ‘sculptural excess’. The temporary public artwork, ‘Swamp Thing’ is Gross’ most consequent approach so far in stressing the relationship between object, site and spectator. It also calls upon Gross’ recurrent processes in the uneasy production of works from apparently unstable and formless materials, and his disregard for the expectations and ordering of architectural and natural form, and performative and sculptural action.

In the gallery, Gross will be exhibiting, and inviting participation, in his large-scale multi-media installation 'Kegel'. In video footage (filmed by Conal Mc Stravick) from the ‘Tomatina’ Festival (an annual tomato fight in Bunol, Spain) we see three of Transmission’s own committee members experience the event at the artist’s invitation. Gross’ work delights in the materiality of sculpture, using it as a means to share experience with collaborators and spectators.

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with photographs by Laura Aldridge and Rob Niven and text by Giles Bailey.
 

Studio projects

A series of successive overlapping studio projects by four Glasgow based artists.

Working in the space for three weeks Rickie McNeill, Rallou Panagiotou, Helena Ohman McCardle and Salomeh Grace each presented a one week show.
This hoped to offer a context for dialogue between these four varied practices and an informal environment for making outwith the white cube.

Studio projects

A series of successive overlapping studio projects by four Glasgow based artists.

Working in the space for three weeks Rickie McNeill, Rallou Panagiotou, Helena Ohman McCardle and Salomeh Grace each presented a one week show.
This hoped to offer a context for dialogue between these four varied practices and an informal environment for making outwith the white cube.