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TRAVEL L lN’3 CALLER Y JAGGY-FDGE Art rattling around on a bus? Think of the cost of the insurance! Never fear, The Travelling Gallery has securely strapped in a rare selection of new works and pieces that have never before been seen in Scotland by some of the country’s best- loved and up and coming artists.
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Andrew Mackenzie loves trees and hates shit comedians. Here he answers a few questions about his exhibition of paintings at Amber Roome.
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Girlpower and Boyhood A vast exhibition of nightmares and daydreams in paint. thread. paper and ink. This expertly curated show examines the tantaSIes and tears of childhood and brings together over 20 internationally acclaimed artists. Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Uri/verSIty. until 30 Sep. Free i Toulouse Lautrec The man. the myth. the legs. and the posters. This exhibition covers it all. Drawmg on a vast array of ephemera created by the artist. pasted all over Paris and promptly scrapped back off the walls by canny Pansuans. these graphic works reek of brothels. the Seine and gaul0ises. See review, page 72. City Art Centre. Edinburgh, until 22 Oct. 85 (£3.50). :i< Robert Mapplethorpe This exhibition is the first major outing of Mapplethorpe's work in this country for a decade. The work on show includes society portraits. penises. 8&M gimps and a smattering of raunchy religious imagery. National Gallery of Modern Art. Edinburgh, until Sun 5 Nov. Free. --i Andrew Mackenzie - Delicate Ground Taking street lights. underpasses and trees as his inspiration, Mackenzie's scrapped and repainted ghost- like canvases become groups of firing synapses. electric forests with neon winds blowing through the wires. Amber Roome. Edinburgh, until 7 Sep. Free. :.'< Moyna Flannigan - well, Well. Flannigan‘s haunting canvases depict tortured clowns and naughty Pierrettes being man-handled by the artist and dragged over expansive areas of canvas. The sparse little drawings that are on show also manage to titillate and scare. Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, until 30 Sep. Free.
For venue addresses see index page 80.
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