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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Brace yourselves: it's the Glasgow International art festival 2010

Christoph Buchel Tramway gallery exhibit
Massive-scale monstrosity ... Christoph Büchel's installation at Tramway is a rat run of shipping containers, magnificently transformed into terrifying waiting rooms, punishment cells and a rotting prison hospital, to name just a few
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Glasgow art festival: Swiss artist Christoph Buchel's exhibit at Tramway
The central feature of Büchel's work is the wrecked fuselage of a large passenger jet
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod
Christoph Buchel exhibit
Chunks of mangled machinery are littered throughout the venue
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Christoph Buchel's burnt clothing exhibit
Devil in the detail ... Büchel's assemblages conjure chilling images of death and destruction
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
David Shrigley's Dead Dog
Glasgow-based artists play an important part in the festival, and no one as much as David Shrigley. His collection of sculptures and objects is playful and deliberately nonsensical
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Jim Lambie exhibit
Super structures ... Jim Lambie's exhibition Metal Urbain at the Modern Institute
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Universal Minature Golf exhibit
Expect your pop art with a punk attitude at Jimmie Durham's Universal Miniature Golf exhibition
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Universal Minature Golf (The Promised Land) by Jimmie Durham
Durham's exhibition, at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, considers themes of identity and colonialism
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Jim Colquhoun's The Thought Fox
Outdoor exhibition Vestige Park features sculptural works by 16 Glasgow-based artists. One of the most dramatic pieces is the giant papier-mache Thought Fox by Jim Colquhoun
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Rob Mulholland's Reflective Transmutations
Also in Vestige Park, Scottish artist Rob Mulholland's mirrored perspex figures blend into the undergrowth ...
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Alex Gross's Experimental Mushroom Architecture
... and Alex Gross creates a distinctive new architecture out of mushrooms. Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art runs until May 3rd at venues across the city
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
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