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From Death to Death and Other Small Tales | Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection

15th December 2012 − 8th September 2013 | Modern One (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art) | Admission Free

Events

A programme of events is scheduled to accompany From Death to Death and Other Small Tales to help visitors learn more about the exhibition. Select a link to find out more about these events.

For more information about all events taking place the National Galleries of Scotland, please check the Events listing in the What’s On Calendar.

Events

Talks & Lectures

Ernesto Neto in Conversation with Michael Asbury

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, known for his ethereal, abstract sculptures, makes a rare visit to Scotland to talk about his work with Dr Michael Asbury, Reader in the Theory and History of Art at University of the Arts, London. Neto's incredible installation, It Happens When the Body is Anatomy of Time, 2000, is one of the key works in our exhibition, From Death to Death and Other Small Tales at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Part of the DEMERGON Conversation Series in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland. Supported by DEMERGON.

Friday, 24th May 2013
6-7pm
Gardens Entrance

Talks & Lectures

Contemporary Art is an Easy Thing to Hate

Contemporary art is an easy thing to hate. Professor Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, New School for Social Research, New York, lists some of those reasons in gruesome and florid detail before giving at least one reason why we should still love it. In order to make the latter case, Critchley focuses on the work of the French artist Philippe Parreno, in particular, his short films. He develops a phenomenology of aesthetic experience based around a reversal of intentionality, an attention to sensuousness and an acute sense of the fictional. Critchley also considers the work of a selection of artists who feature in the exhibition, From Death to Death and Other Small Tales, and the question of contemporary art's complicity with capital and whether there is still a space for critique, resistance and distance in the art world. Part of the DEMERGON Conversation Series in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland. Supported by DEMERGON. Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He also teaches at Tilburg University and the European Graduate School. His many books include Very Little…Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, and, most recently with Tom McCarthy, The Mattering of Matter. Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society. A new work on Hamlet called Stay, Illusion! will be published in June by Pantheon Books, co-authored with Jamieson Webster. He is series moderator of ‘The Stone’, a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.

Saturday, 25th May 2013
2-3pm
Gardens Entrance

Talks & Lectures

Highlight Tours of From Death to Death and Other Small Tales - June 2013

Tours of the Gallery of Modern Art's new exhibition, From Death to Death and Other Small Tales which features works from the permanent collection and the private holdings of modern and contemporary art from the D.Daskalapoulos Collection.

Saturday, 8th June 2013
2-2.45pm & 3-3.45pm
Modern One

Talks & Lectures

Neto and Hammons: An Artist's Insight into the Installation Process

Artist Campbell Sandilands shares a personal perspective on the installation of two jewels of the From Death to Death experience, the works by Ernesto Neto and David Hammons. Come along and hear about the step-by-step process of installing the artworks, the highs and lows, the serendipitous moments, that sense of ownership, and wanting to do one's very best as the installation progresses.

Monday, 10th June 2013
12.45-1.30pm
Modern One

Special Events

The Drawing Room - June 2013

Experimental, artist-led drawing sessions inspired by the Gallery of Modern Art's current exhibition, From Death to Death and Other Small Tales.

Thursday, 13th June 2013
5.30-6.45pm
Modern One

Communities

Visually Impaired Tour and Workshop - From Death to Death and other Small Tales

A free descriptive tour and practical workshop led by Juliana Capes for the Visually Impaired.

Wednesday, 19th June 2013
10am-3.30pm
Modern One

Talks & Lectures

Joseph Beuys: Art as Redemption?

This talk by Dr Debbie Lewer, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, will consider the work of the post-war German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986). Focusing on a selection of works currently on show in the From Death to Death and Other Small Tales exhibition, we will discuss themes of personal and collective trauma and redemption and Beuys’s concept of ‘social sculpture’.

Monday, 24th June 2013
12.45-1.30pm
Modern One

Talks & Lectures

Bodies of Work: From Barney to Gober and Other Tales

Throughout the work of both Matthew Barney and Robert Gober we find perversely hybridized bodies, strangely fragmented body parts, bodies integrated into architectural space, and bodies shaped by desire. Dr Dominic Paterson, University of Glasgow, will investigate and contextualise the distinctive approaches each of these important and influential artists takes to the representation of the human body.