Generation: the mega-show that proves Scottish art is fizzing with energy

Taking place in galleries all over Scotland, the giant art event Generation is by turns ecstatic, eye-opening and troubling. Jonathan Jones finds a Parliament of Funk and a land of free guitars

What kind of administration might an independent Scotland have? Perhaps it would be the Parliament of Funk, the Psychedelic Utopia, or the Rockabilly Empire.

That's what I found myself thinking as I paced the kaleidoscopic disco floor that is Jim Lambie's Zobop. This 1999 classic of contemporary Scottish art is made of lines of coloured tape that completely fill a room. Installed at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery as part of the mega-exhibition Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, which can be seen at venues all over Scotland this summer, it is ecstatic, hallucinatory the ultimate legal high. Lambie is a rock'n'roll Matisse. His chromatic cocktails set the mind free.

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