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Mark Handforth
(c) The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Mark Handforth
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
21 July 2010, 6.30-7.30pm
We will be visiting the Modern Institute’s new gallery space on Osbourne Street, to discuss the work of Miami-based artist, Mark Handforth. Your hosts will be Lesley Hepburn and Lindsey Hanlon (The Modern Institute).
Mark’s practice is sculptural and often celebrates the materiality of the world around us, in the physical sense, while subtlety shifting our perception of these objects (street lights, candles, signs) through his own interventions. His current show focuses on a deck of cards, blowing up these familiar symbols to enlarged proportions. On the outside of the Gallery hangs a neon on the red sandstone wall – a Crying Moon – which embodies this playful displacement of the familiar.
The Modern Institute was established in 1998 as an artist project space, working closely with Glasgow-based and international artists. Today it represents 36 artists from Glasgow, Europe and the United States, with a programme of ten or so exhibitions per year as well as participating in international art fairs such as Basel (Switzerland), Armory (NY), Hong Kong and Miami (USA). Previously located in a red sandstone period building at 73 Robertson Street, the Modern Institute has now relocated to an old wash house in Osborne Street in the Trongate area of Glasgow.