Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Edinburgh, UK
30th June to 21st October 2007
www.nationalgalleries.org
33 years after his first SNGMA show, Long is back, and this time he's muddy. The work ranges from River Avon Rainbow (1969) to mud prints on artefacts (2007). The interventions in different global locations don't work: they feel like an imposition, the photographs seeming irredeemably seventies. The mud drawings are fine, and the text pieces from walks are as satisfying as always (despite mixing serif and sans serif fonts). Best by far is the Stone Line. It's hard not to compare this show with Goldsworthy at YSP, Long seems more insubstantial, less respectful of the nature he draws on.
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