GoMA, Glasgow, until May 27th 2013
3 stars
When GoMa's soon to be outgoing associate artist Rachel Mimiec led
workshops with children at the Red Road Family Centre Nursery, her own
line of inquiry with blocks of colour led to a body of work that sees
pages from issues of National Geographic daubed, splodged or scribbled
over.
There's little to distinguish between the children's paintings and
Mimiec's own work in terms of style and substance in this three-room
installation. Which, for a show that looks at collective creative
action, is how it should be.
Landscape and nature are paramount to the experience, especially with
the inclusion of Horatio McCulloch's 1866 landscape painting, Loch
Moree, crucially hung upside down. It's a topsy-turvy cock-a-snook to
the subject's more formal representations that comes from a sense of
fun more than subversion. Yet it's the intimacy of the printed matter
that resonates most in a show that blurs the boundaries between
community and solo practice to create something bright, brash and
flag-wavingly, panoramically partisan in terms of embracing the shared
experience where being both viewer and participant are as vital as each
other.
The List, April 2013
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