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Torsten Lauschmann is the man who, posing as Professor Hans Peter Niesward from an Institute for Gravitational Physics based in Munich, instigated World Jump Day in 2006, an occasion aiming to make hundreds of millions of people leap simultaneously.
The project’s mission – to send a tremulous earth into another orbit where global warming didn’t exist – might have ultimately fallen short, but the idea only served to enhance the reputation of the German-born artist as one to watch.
The 42-year-old is a key player on the famously edgy Glasgow art scene, and his recent works, interplaying between illusion and real objects, form a typically playful and surprising batch of new pieces here.
The star work might be Father’s Monocle, a kind of intergalactic vision made from pinpricks of light and hinting at a creator figure surveying the universe.
It won acclaim at his recent show at Dundee Contemporary Arts, who co-commissioned the piece alongside Film and Video Umbrella and the impressive AV Festival which illuminated the north-east for a month earlier this year.
- Open 11am-5pm (4pm Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday). Admission free.
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Father's Monocle (2011)
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© Courtesy Film and Video Umbrella, Dundee Contemporary Arts and AV Festival
The coy Lover (2011)
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© Courtesy Film and Video Umbrella, Dundee Contemporary Arts and AV Festival
