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FESTIVAL VISUAL ART | Hitlist ART HITLIST
Rachael Cloughton highlights some of the best visual art in the festival’s first week review, page 101. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, 624 6200, until 27 Sep, £9 (£7).
ARIEL GUZIK: HOLOTURIAN HANNE DARBOVEN: ACCEPTING
This Mexican artist’s ultimate ambition is to build an undersea capsule to enable humans to communicate with sea life; in the meantime, he’s constructed a submarine musical instrument for the same purpose. See preview, page 101. Trinity Apse, until 30 Aug, free.
HANNA TUULIKKI, SING SIGN: A
CLOSE DUET A musical and visual work inspired by a 1765 street map, performed by composer / artist Tuulikki and Daniel Padden, and exploring the different ways in which we experience the city. See preview, page 98. Gladstone’s Land, 226 5856, until 30 Aug, free.
THE AMAZING WORLD OF MC
ANYTHING AMONG EVERYTHING Mesmerising lists and tables of numbers are a major feature of one of the first major exhibitions in the UK by this important German conceptualist and composer, a friend and contemporary of Kosuth and Weiner. Talbot Rice Gallery, 650 2210, until 3 Oct, free.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN: SCULPTURES
This American artist brought abstract expressionism to sculpture with his intriguing and oddly sensuous works made from parts of trashed cars; also featured are works in metal foil and perspex. See review, page 101. Inverleith House, 248 2971/2849, until 4 Oct, free.
ESCHER PHYLLIDA BARLOW: SET
Dreamlike, vivid yet always rigorously logical prints and engravings from the highly influential Dutch artist; amazingly, for an artist so embedded in the popular imagination, this is his first major retrospective in the UK. See Towering sculptures and installations by a veteran artist and tutor enjoying a late-career resurgence after being tutor at the Slade to such distinguished artists as Rachel Whiteread and Martin Creed. Impressive, disturbing and
John Chamberlain: Sculptures
thought-provoking. See review, page 95. Fruitmarket Gallery, 225 2383, until 18 Oct, free.
KENNARDPHILLIPPS: HERE COMES EVERYBODY
Scabrous, uncompromising and sometimes darkly hilarious photomontages from Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps, whose ‘Photo Op’ made Tony Blair look like he was taking a selfie in front of a blazing oilfield. See feature, page 97. Stills Gallery, 622
6200, until 25 Oct, free.
POP AND BOOM: 70 YEARS OF NUCLEAR CULTURE
An interactive exploration of our love/ hate relationship (well, more lie-awake- in-a-cold-sweat-worrying-about relationship) with nuclear weapons, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. See feature, page 97. Gayfield Creative Spaces, 6–20 Aug, free.
Rethinking the past Free public lectures to challenge popular beliefs and reassess intriguing events from throughout history. 10–13 August 2015
www.shca.ed.ac.uk/festivallectures
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