Kandinsky in Govan: Art, Spirituality and the Future

Update Nov 2011: Our Kandinsky in Govan conference was a successful and stimulating event, with workshops, keynote addresses and a ‘Blue Rider’ ceilidh on the Saturday night. The main conference archive/proceedings page, containing resources, media links and papers, is on curator Alastair McIntosh’s personal site which is linked to below.

It was held in the Pearce Institute, the GalGael Trust workshops and Govan Old Parish Church.

Archival information, proceeding, papers and additional information is on the conference curator’s website – please click this link

Kandinsky in Govan: Art, Spirituality and the Future

Kandinsky, who was one of the founders of modern art, sets out to confront the crass materialism of his era. In this, he stands in the tradition of Russian art that sees "Art as service" - and specifically, as service of that which has the sacred at its core. Kandinsky presented these ideas in his little book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, completed in October 1911. The conference marks this centenary. It will simultaneously honour his ideas, criticise them, and ask what message they can speak in Govan and beyond today.