Dub‘l-inTROODer

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 3rd March - 31st March

Bank, Beagles & Ramsay, Bob & Bob, David Burrows with Bob and Roberta Smith, Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley and Muntean and Rosenblum.

Dub’l-inTROODer presents a selection of artists from Scotland, London, Austria and the USA who work collaboratively. Collaboration has become an increasingly prominent aspect of contemporary art in recent years, and this show brings together a number of well known artist duos.

Bank have worked together collaboratively for almost ten years. The group has gone through a series of mutating personnel lineups, of which Milly Thompson and Simon Bedwell are the latest incarnation. They have operated as artists, curators, gallery owners and tabloid newspaper editors. They recently published a book of their years of struggle and success in the vipers nest which is the London art world.

John Beagles and Graham Ramsay. One time publicity agents for the Lidl food chain, this duo will be showing new work. They will be exhibiting their recently acquired state of the art studio/industrial unit. Measuring 4m x 3m x 3.5m, this impressive facility boasts a sculpture workshop, showroom and baby pink latex rubber gimp outfits.

Bob and Bob set the Los Angeles art scene ablaze in the late 1970’s and early 80’s with their smart, nylon suits and blow dried bulletproof hair. Now sadly deceased as a double act, their paintings, photographs, records and performances live up to their slogan - "Makin’ art...That makes sense!".

David Burrows and Bob and Roberta Smith will be exhibiting documentation and details of their recently inaugurated art school "Le Ecole de Burrows et Bob Smith". This twisted and corrupt institution offers a wide range of full time, vocational and leisure classes to suit everyone. Live performance on the opening night with a hybrid John Lennon and Yoko Ono Bed-In featuring Joseph Beuys and his Wolf.

Austrian duo Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum , will be exhibiting paintings of the Beautiful People culled from fashion and lifestyle magazines. Bordered by banal, appropriated texts they works look to transform and recast these familiar images.

Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley

Some time collaborators, Kelley and McCarthy, will be showing one of their celebrated examinations of dysfunctional family life. Taking as a starting point the familiar tale of Heidi, their video is a disturbing, perverse, and hilarious portrayal of inverted family values.

Info: Transmission 0141 552 4813 Beagles & Ramsay 0141 556 6159/554 5894 www.beaglesramsay.co.uk

"Dub’l-intROODer"

Selected recent exhibitions.

BANK (Milly Thompson & Simon Bedwell) "Century City" Tate Modern, London 2001 "Press Release" Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York 1999 "Dead Life" Mayor Gallery, London 1999 "White" Bank, Art & Language Gallery Poo Poo, London 1998 "Sewage Lust" I.C.A. London 1997. "Host" Tramway, Glasgow 1998.

Beagles & Ramsay "Video Pranksters", YYZ, Toronto 2000. "Crash", Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1999. "Evolution Isn't Over Yet", Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1999 'Goodnite! Goodnite!', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Dec. 1997.

Bob & Bob (1975-1980) "Sex is Stupid" Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art 1979 "Makin Art ...That Makes Sense" LA project Space 1978. "Money in the Bank" Club de Art, New York 1977. "We’re Stoned ...What Are You?" 815 Traction, Beverly Hills 1977.

Bob & Roberta Smith "Intelligence" Tate Gallery. London 2000 "The Ascent of Man" Trade Apartment, London 2000. "Improve the Cat" Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London 1999. "Bob & Roberta Smith" Arnofini Gallery, Bristol 1998. "Don’t Hate Sculpt" Chisenhale Gallery, London 1997. David Burrows "Becks Futures" ICA London, 2001 "Le Ecole de Burrows et Bob Smith" Galerie Praz, Paris 2000 "the Boold Show" Five Years Gallery, London 1999. "They died so you might live" Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 1998. "Joy Joy" Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 1996.

Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy "Collaborative Works" Power Plant, Toronto 2000. "Let’s Entertain" Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA 2000 "Out of Actions" Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles 1998 "Alpenblick", Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria 1997. "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1995.

Muntean & Rosenblum "More than possible" Jack Tilton Gallery, New York 2000. "100% painting", Hmehdi Chouakri,Berlin 2000 "Lonely facts" Kunsthalle Luckenwalde 1998 "Slaymobil" City Racing, London 1997. "Body Shop", Galerie Kidmat Eden, Tel Aviv 1996.