The Reid Gallery opens with specially created furniture, film and sculpture
Mackintosh-inspired vase and fresh flowers, South Korean soap stars and a sculpture made from piano wood feature in inaugural exhibition.
The Reid Gallery, a purpose built exhibition space on the ground floor of the new Reid Building, opened on 22 March 2014. For the inaugural show GSA Exhibitions Director Jenny Brownrigg invited four of the School’s alumni – Briggs & Cole, Raydale Dower and Heaven Baek - to respond to the architecture of the space and this point in the GSA’s 170 year history. The exhibition features a Mackintosh-inspired vase and fresh flowers, South Korean soap stars and a sculpture made from piano wood. It runs until 4 May 2014 and is part of the included programme for the 2014 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.
“Steven Holl Architects’ buildings have often been inspired by the connection between architecture, music and poetry,”says Brownrigg. “A ‘caesura’ denotes a brief, silent pause in poetry or music, during which metrical time is not counted. As the new Reid Building welcomes people and springs into life, occupied by its community, visited by the public, this inaugural exhibition is intended to act as a pause in time, the beginning of a new chapter for the art school.”
Images: Two pieces from Briggs & Cole’sTemperancecollection. A five section glass vase & flowers and a section of the oak and steel Reid Table