BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:4626735:Event:21403
DTSTAMP:20120530T161312Z
SUMMARY:Tramway Private View: Matthew Darbyshire (with Owen Hatherly)
DESCRIPTION:Tramway is proud to present visual artist Matthew Darbyshi
 re’s largest public exhibition to date 'T rooms' which includes a sp
 linter project by Darbyshires long term collaborator architecture cri
 tic Owen Hatherly.\nDarbyshire presents us with a hypothetical future 
 scenario where Tramway appears to have been bought up and developed in
 to a residential care-village, although owing to the eerie silence of
  it all, like elsewhere across the country, Tramway’s visitors may s
 uspect that they’ll have to make do with the virtual rendition ‘un
 til the market picks up’. A huge printed banner resembling a so-call
 ed ‘building wrap’ stretched from pillar to pillar throughout Tram
 way’s vast gallery space demarcates a faux-residential gated environ
 ment, implying a building site where a new all-under-one-roof ‘villa
 ge in the city’ is under construction. Depicted is a trompe l’oeil
  style architectural render of what is allegedly to come. With its com
 puter generated geometry, pixelated curves and uniform proportions, T 
 Rooms suggests an abject, homogenised developers vernacular in which t
 he Mackintosh-style has reduced to a series of bland and generic motif
 s. Each depicted detail pertains to an existing Mackintosh design, scr
 ambling a so called ‘Mockintosh’ architectural vocabulary into var
 ious indecipherable uses – is it a bar, spa, bank or boutique? Is it
  for eating, sleeping, praying or a meeting? By adopting simplified co
 mpositions from some of Glasgow’s most celebrated Mackintosh buildin
 gs, Darbyshire’s installation reflects on the way in which developer
 s demonstrate an apparent sensitivity to their environment and the fea
 red potential revival of right-wing nostalgic mock architectural appro
 aches that negate all proper human concerns in favour of the cheapest 
 and most ubiquitous palettes and materials.\n\nFor more information vi
 sit http://www.newglasgowsociety.org/events/tramway-private-view-matth
 ew-darbyshire-with-owen-hatherly
DTSTART:20120126T190000Z
DTEND:20120126T210000Z
CATEGORIES:exhibition, opening
LOCATION:TRAMWAY (main gallery space)
WEBSITE:http://www.tramway.org
URL:http://www.tramway.org
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER:Claire Jackson, Curator, Tramway
ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/MNr7PueOGvFlH
 JJLcZ8-Fv5ZW5305FkImnopLbzs4m8w9mhlsY-5D1k8KmEBAe-TqIyL370Z2PktJ0TZB4B
 vmTjMeIJ70*OC/0003TRoomsbannerdetail.jpg
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dr Carol
  McKenzie":http://www.newglasgowsociety.org/profile/CarolMcKenzie
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Claire J
 ackson":http://www.newglasgowsociety.org/profile/ClaireJackson
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR