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Sharon Kivland's photographs depict consumption as a double-edged sword. They look at commercial consumption, but also at how the active ’male' gaze can consume the passive and desirous female subject.
Les Bonheurs Des Femmes is a series of fifteen photographs of women's legs standing at Paris perfume counters. Above these are the names of various perfumes, such as Allure, Fantasme, Indecence, all of which evoke desire. Legs can be sexy, but are Kivland’s? In her photographs she creates an anomaly between a salacious text and less sensuous photographs. She avoids the fetishist gloss, the surface of her photographs are matt, and there is again an attempt to move the subject away from the scopophilic
gaze.
Kivland claims that ’the photographs play on the advertising phrase “below the line" — what the buyer doesn't know.’ With Kivland's works, the viewer may or may not desire what is 'below the line’ or be tantalised
Sharon Kivland: Les Bonheurs Des Femmes (The Scent Of A Woman) iii
Showing a bit of leg at Parisian perfume counters
inspiration.
Showrng a large selection of Schueler’s works, the clean, white walls of the Ingleby Gallery perfectly complement his paintings. Deeply rooted in nature, the shifting light and atmosphere of the skies compelled Schueler to create his skyscapes. Imagine the onset of a spectacular sunset as pink and crimson tones begin to tinge the sky or the start of a heavy storm breWing. Capturing the subtlety of his subject, his works are incredibly calming, and as the gallery’s natural light bathes his works, the colours change at different pOints of the day.
(Helen Monaghani
is! Jon Schueler, Ingleby Gallery, 556 4447, until 9 Sep, Mon—Sat 70am—5pm. Free.
ARCH!TECTURE
Edinbur h On The Rack: The New Arc itecture **** Edinburgh architecture is put under the spotlight
Over a hundred of the city's buildings dating from the last twenty years are given a critical gOing-over in an show innovativer designed by Richard Murphy Architects. And the man selected to do the critical maul is the filmmaker Murray Grigor who certainly has a way with words, Alongside a postcard of the said building is a brief blurb from the architects, but push aside the postcard and you find Grigor’s handwritten pithy and punchy response. Take Festival Square on Lothian Road. An inhospitable dive of a public space, it shows little festive Charm, And Grigor’s remarks? It's more like Ceaucescu Plaza. Cutting and spot on (Susanna Beaumont)
til Edinburgh On The Rack. The New Architecture, R/AS (Venue 755) 229 7545, until 7 Sep, Mon—Fri 9am—5pm, Sat 70am—4pm. Free.
Legs can be sexy, but are Kivland's?
by what is beyond the frame. (Claire Mitchell)
Sharon Kivland les Bonheurs Des Femmes (The Scent OfA Woman) Portfolio Gallery (Venue 42 220 797 1, until 2 Sep, Mon Sat 70 30am~5 30pm.
Free
Elizabeth Blackadder: Paintings, Prints And Watercolours 1955-2000 ****
One of Scotland’s most popular
artists gets a retrospective Needing little introduction, Falkirk-
horn artist Fli/alieth Blac kaclcler was the first woman ever to become a member of both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy in London In a show that celebrates her long and lustrous career, the 'i‘alhot Rice Gallery presents \.'.()lk‘s from the I9SOs to the current day EIKOIdeSSJK} the entire gallery space, B.ac kaclcier's fairtiliar' '.'i(ll(’."(()l()llf paintings of landscapes, l'lox‘rei's and cats are well represented In her delicate still lllt‘ studies, Blac kaddei‘ (lisoheys the traditional organisation of space in a carefully composed arr'angeirient of ()l);(*( ts against a flattened hac kgiolincl But tuc iced away :r‘ the ripper ter' of the
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Puppet creations of magic and modern myth
gallery, we come into contact wrth Blackadder's perhaps lesser known works. A wonderful collection of lithographs and aquatints of botanic forms which demand closer inspection
The subject matter may not be the most engaging, but as this retrospective shows, her popularity and artistic ability is never left in any doubt (Helen Ivlonaghani
Elizabeth Blacflcaclcler“ Paintings,
Prints And Watercolours 7955-2000, Talbot Rice Gallery, 650 227 7, until 9 Sep, fVIO/l“5c3( 70am—5pm," Sun 2 5pm Free.
If you have any qualms about a white chap making 'ethnic' art, this is not for yOu. Otherwrse, Davrd Cox’s first
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Jon Schueler **** Schueler’s Scottish skies
The bustling city of New York and Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland couldn't be more different. But for American abstract painter Jon
Sc hueler, who spent his lifetime between the two, his Scottish SOJOUTII in the I9SOs provrcied new artistic
exhibition in Scotland, of voodoo puppets and boxy Vignettes, is a pleasant enough diversron.
The puppets, originally designed to be carried in parades at the WOMAD festivals, are riots of red, gold and green, and it makes a change to be inVited to pull strings and turn cogs instead of chin-stroking behind a velvet rope, Most appealing, though, are the smaller works, influenced by Cox’s fondness for blues and reggae mUSIC, With a bastardised ghetto blaster spewrng MCs and pinned to tricolour lightening bolts, and portraits of toaster U Roy and bluesman Albert King. (Jack Mottram)
: Remix — David Cox, New Street Exhibition Space (Venue 743) 558 7604, until 8 Sep, daily 70.30am—7030pm. Free.
mixto LtEDlA Connections 2000 ***
Mixed media show of epic proportions
Following on from last year’s Festival theme, over 100 Academy members and their inVited guests present an eclectic selection of paintings, photographs, sculpture and architecture.
Elaine Allison’s Roundness No l — spherical wooden sculptural forms — welcomes you into the space and, from then on it’s a whrrlwrnd tour thr0ugh a plethora of styles and mediums. Submitted works by the well-known, the unfamiliar and honorary members Craigie Aitchison, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and John Bellany respectively, line the RSA’s vast gallery walls, Photography makes its debut this year, including Wendy McMurdo's Clarsach Player, St Mary’s Music School Edinburgh 7998, a photograph of a yOung girl wrth hands pOised to play the instrument.
But wrth such an overwhelming amount of work and lack of any thematic structure, Connections 2000 can leave you feeling decidedly disconnected. (Helen Monaghan)
fl Connections 2000, Royal Scottish Academy (Venue 64) 225 6677, until 24 Sep, Mon-Sat 70am—5pm, Sun noon—5pm. Free.
Still life with Peruvian hat, 1981 by Elizabeth Blackadder