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CONCRETE BUTTERFLY
317—319 Cowgate, 558 7130. Mon—Sat 10am—6pm; Sun noon-5 m.
Modern Shopping For e Home Until Sat 2 Sep. The Cowgate’s newest retail outlet features a range of furniture, lighting, floor covering, textiles and glassware by designers. For the Festival, new collections by designers Alasdair Gall, Concrete Butterfly, Fiona McIntosh and Tessuti will be on show.
COSTA
1 Hanover Street, 226 4814 and 35 Shandwick Place, 221 9306. Mon-Sat 8am—8pm; Sun 10am—6pm.
Kate Millar Until Mon 30 Oct. Drawings and paintings by Kate Millar (Edinburgh College of Art).
CYBERIA INTERNET CAFE
88 Hanover Street, 220 4403. Mon—Sat 10am—10pm; Sun noon—7pm. Drawings Of Life Until Fri 8 Sep. New work by Katie Bradshaw, a third year student at Edinburgh College ofArt.
DANISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE
3 Doune Terrace, 225 7189. Mon—Fri 10am—5pm.
Merete Barker: The City As Image Red City - Black City Until Fri 15 Sep. Continuing the lnstitute’s series of exhibitions on the theme of the city, artist Merete Barker presents fourteen photo collages entitled From Near And Far and ten new paintings including Red City — Black City which was created this year after a visit to India.
THE DAVID YOUNG GALLERY
at Marie Curie House, 29 Albany Street, 478 7050. Mon$at 10am—5pm; Sun 1—5pm.
Geoffrey Roper Until Sun 3 Sep. Launching this new gallery named after the late Sir David Young, former chairman of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Scottish Committee, new paintings by Geoffrey Roper.
THE DEAN GALLERY
Belford Road, 624 6200 (recorded information 332 2266). Mon—Sat 10am—5pm; Sun noon-5 m. Cafe. Salvador Dali‘s Optica Illusions Until Sun 1 Oct. £4 (£3); joint with Klee £6 (£4.50). Edinburgh plays host to the only European venue to stage this remarkable exhibition of some 70 major works by the eccentric Surrealist Spanish painter, Salvador Dali. Inspired by dreams, hallucinations and other unconscious forces, the exhibition concentrates on his lifelong fascination with illusion, visual perception and distortion, paying particular attention to Dali’s technique of creating ‘double- images’.
THE DI ROLLO GALLERY
27 Queensferry Street, 220 4150. Mon—Sat 9.30am—5.30pm; Sun noon—4pm.
Recent Acquisitions A changing display of the gallery’s recent purchases.
DOLLS AT THE BLUE MOON CAFE
36 Broughton Road, 476 2699. Daily noon—lam.
Building A Body Mon 14 Aug—Mon 4 Sep. Photographs by Rachel Connelly.
DUNDAS STREET GALLERY
6a Dundas Street, 558 9363. Mon—Fri 10am—6pm; Sat 10am-1pm.
Ian Houston Until Sat 12 Aug. London’s Portland Gallery presents an exhibition of landscape paintings of Scotland including scenes of Edinburgh and the west coast.
Sophie MacPherson Wed 16—Sat 26 Aug. Landscape and marine paintings by Sophie MacPherson.
EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART Lauriston Place, 221 6000. Daily 10am—5 m.
AbigaifO'Brien and Mary Kelly Until Sat 26 Aug. Dublin artists Abigail O’Brien and Mary Kelly explore ritual, sexuality and cultural mores in this collaborative installation How To ButterflyA Leg OfLamb. The work fuses video, photography and sculpture.
Tectonic - A City To Live In Until Sat 26 Aug. A two-part installation consisting of large-scale colour photographs and a glass floor plan by Lars Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow. Portraying a contemporary cityscape, the work examines notions of non-place and spaces utilised for leisure, transit and commerce.
Susanne Ramsenthaler - Partial View Until Sat 26 Aug. Using pinhole and plastic lens cameras, Susanne Ramsenthaler has produced a series of photographs documenting the attitudes of a changing society in South Africa. Fraser Taylor - All So Slippery Until Sat 26 Aug. New work by London-based, Glasgow School of Art graduate, Fraser Taylor which combines paint, fabric, canvas and plastics.
John Murray and John K. McGregor — Watermarks Until Sat 26 Aug. Photographer John K. McGregor and poet John Murray have collaborated to produce a body of work inspired by The River Teviot in Kelso.
Alastair Mack Until Sat 26 Aug. Edinburgh-based artist Alastair Mack’s new work explores the possibilities of both painting and printmaking as well as using poetry and chemical formulae. Ahmad Rashdl Yan Ibrahim — Growth Until Sat 26 Aug. A new body of work by Ahmad Rashdl Yan Ibrahim, a PhD student in the School of Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art which involves the technique of bronze casting made from cuttlefish bone.
Abigail O'Brien - Baptism Until Sat 26 Aug. Photographs by Irish artist Abigail O’Brien, taken from her solo series Baptism which looks at cultural, religious and art historical traditions.
Mary Kelly - Baby Blue Until Sat 26 Aug. Mary Kelly presents a solo video and sculptural installation which through simple devices, affects the viewer’s senses and emotions.
Mijntie Wismans - A Demand For Identity Until Sat 26 Aug. Danish artist Mijntie Wismans creates an installation
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Mexican Day of the Dead souvenir, 1997 forming part of Heaven and Hell and Other Worlds of the Dead at the Royal Museum
entitled A Demand For Identity which examines emotions and the loss of identity.
Festival Exhibitions Part II Thu 10-Wed 16 Aug. Edinburgh College of Art present part two of their Festival exhibition programme. In Schottland features experimental and performance work by students from the Munich Art Academy; collaborative work by proto- Academy; a site-specific sculpture by Aya lguchi and winner of the Becks Futures public art commission, Helen Stringfellow presents Holiday World, a portocabin full of illustrations and merchandise of the perfect package holiday.
Simon presents sculpture, paintings, graphic and audio visual works.
FIRTH GALLERY
35 William Street, 225 2196. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm.
From Lauderdale To Languedoc Until Sat 2 Sep. New paintings by Andrew Walker.
THE FOUR PLUS ONE GALLERY
2 Warrender Park Road, 667 5152. Mon—Sat 10am—6pm.
Scottish Craft Exhibition A wide variety of crafts and applied arts by up- and-coming craftmakers and designers working in Scotland.
EDINBURGH GALLERY
18a Dundas Street, 557 5227. Mon-Fri 11am—5pm; Sat 10am—3pm.
Life Stories: Karen McIntyre Until Sat 19 Aug. A solo exhibition of figurative paintings by Karen McIntyre.
EDINBURGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY The Photographic Exhibition Centre, 68 Great King Street, Mon—Sat 10am-8pm; Sun 1—5pm.
International Photography 2000 Until Sun 3 Sep. Contemporary photography from around the globe.
EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS
23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue—Sat 10am—6pm.
Significant Uncertainties Until Fri 8 Sep. Realist, figurative prints by the Edinburgh and Madrid-based artist, Roberto Gonzalez Fernandez, using the new Toyobo photo polymer etching process.
Antoni Tapies Until Fri 8 Sep. Abstract prints by this Barcelona-based artist.
EDINBURGH ZOO
Corstorphine Road, 334 9171. Daily 9am—5pm. £6.80 (£3.80—£4.80); family ticket £19-£23.50.
The Elephants Are Back! Until Fri 8 Sep. Life size sculptures of elephants by artist-in-residence Gail Van Heerden.
A Moment In Life Until Fri 8 Sep. The Zoo’s artist-in-residence, Pascale Rentsch shows new paintings, drawings and prints.
EDITH SIMON GALLERY
67 Northumberland Street, 556 5873. Mon—Sat 10.30am—6 m.
Edith Simon Once Apgain Until Sat 26 Aug. Regular festival exhibitor Edith
FRUITMARKET GALLERY
45 Market Street, 225 2383. Mon—Sat Ham-8.30 m; Sun noon-8.30pm. Shirin Nesfiat Until Sat 23 Sep. The gallery’s International Festival exhibition showcases the work of Iranian video artist Shirin Neshat. On show is her video installation Turbulent which won a prestigious Golden Lion award at the 1999 Venice Biennale and the UK premier screening of Soliloquy.
FUNCTIONAL ARTS LIMITED www.func.co.uk
lmmediacy Until Wed 30 Aug. Not an art gallery as such, but a new website launched by Functional Arts Limited, in which you can experience the Festival without leaving the house. Digital photographs will be taken in every 24- hour period at Festival venues (Fruitmarket Gallery, Assembly Rooms and the Gilded Balloon) and will then be displayed directly onto the website.
GALERIE MIRAGES
46a Raeburn Place, 315 2603. Mon—Sat
10am—5.30pm.
Puppets From The East Until Sat 16
Sep. Unique, original string puppets
from China and Orissa in india form art of this selling exhibition.
cilorld Jewellery Until Sat 16 Sep. A
selling exhibition of both traditional
and modern jewellery from around the
globe.
GALLERY 41
41 Dundas Street, 557 4569. Mon-Fri 10.30am—5.30pm; Sat 10.30am-5pm. Festival Summer Exhibition Until Sat 2 Sep. A mixed show featuring paintings and applied arts by over 70 artists.
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