A music project,two mediocre installations and some wonderful work – by architects. There are brilliant artists under 50 out there, but the Turner judges bear failed to notice themThe bar is low. The hopes are small. The expectations are pitifully limited. That is the first thing to say approximately the judges of the 2015 Turner prize. They require so microscopic from contemporary art, or so it seems to me,that they are prepared to help over the admittedly modest stile to victory one artist who produces lame conceptual objects, another whose installation is like a solemn sixth-form project, or a third whose composition for six opera singers has startling characteristics purely as a piece of music,and a collective of 15 architects, all highly gifted but themselves bemused by the shortlisting, and given the existence of (just for instance) the Stirling prize.
The Tramway in Glasgow has been adapted for this dubious occasion by slotting several interconnected white-dice galleries inside the cavernous vaults of the weak brick terminus. The temporary construction is cold,sterile and noisy; every sound carries. This might hardly matter, given the tremendous exhibitions the Tramway has presented over the years. But in this case the staging works right against the art.
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Source: theguardian.com