Brace yourselves: it's the Glasgow International art festival 2010

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
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The central feature of Büchel's work is the wrecked fuselage of a large passenger jet
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Chunks of mangled machinery are littered throughout the venue
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Devil in the detail ... Büchel's assemblages conjure chilling images of death and destruction
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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
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Super structures ... Jim Lambie's exhibition Metal Urbain at the Modern Institute
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Expect your pop art with a punk attitude at Jimmie Durham's Universal Miniature Golf exhibition
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Durham's exhibition, at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, considers themes of identity and colonialism
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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
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Also in Vestige Park, Scottish artist Rob Mulholland's mirrored perspex figures blend into the undergrowth ...
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... 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
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