'Glasgow International: less of a show and more of a marketing umbrella. But you know what? There is nothing wrong with that. Instead of some sledge-hammered theme – 'affect', ‘touched' – it would seem the organisers programmed a few key events and asked everyone else to make an extra special effort with their shows. The result was an influx of Volcano-surmounting artworld types journeying north to meet their Scottish counterparts for two days of art and frivolity. Clutching maps, we toured Glasgow’s myriad of publicly funded, commercial and artist-run spaces and found, by and large, quality stuff.
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'Down an industrial back road, opposite the Modern Institute’s new space (the Jim Lambie show was still being set up when I popped my head round: very colourful was all I could make out), is a series of rail arches, one of which has been commandeered by the artist-run organisation SWG3 as a project space. The whitewashed walls played well with a tight solo show of work by Dan Miller. Not known to me before – though he has a good CV of shows around Glasgow, with solo outings in Copenhagen and Düsseldorf – there’s a pristine pale minimalism to his practice. The pared-down nature of the paint application operates, refreshingly, at odds with the usual glossiness that in-vogue Scottish minimalism so often adheres to. The exhibition plays with a sense of symmetry and repetition that suggest an interlocking algorithm operating, hidden, behind the curation.'
