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FESTIVAL VISUAL ART | Hitlist ART HITLIST
Rachael Cloughton highlights some of the best visual art to explore in week three of the festival Parish Church of St Cuthbert, until 1 Sep, free.
ADAM LEWIS JACOB: THE GREEN MAN
LUCY SKAER:
NO EASY ANSWERS An experimental moving image installation within the grand interiors of the French Institute on West Parliament Square. Early-career artist Adam Lewis Jacob’s ambitious and complex work takes JG Ballard’s novel Kingdom Come, Brexit and the increasing abstraction of economics as starting points to explore the role consumer spaces play in forming identity and public opinion. See review, page 95. Institut Français d’Écosse, until 26 Aug, free.
Lucy Skaer has spent the past few months on an artist residency at the University of Edinburgh, exploring the institution’s huge collections. This exhibition has been greatly informed by this period of working, and is an exploration of our desire to collect. Skaer has also invited artists Fiona Connor, Will Holder, Hanneline Visnes and Rosalind Nashashibi to show alongside her. See review, page 93. Talbot Rice Gallery, until 6 Oct, free. EDWIN G LUCAS:
BILL VIOLA: THREE WOMEN AN INDIVIDUAL EYE
Installed in the atmospheric Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Bill Viola’s mesmerising video installation, ‘Three Women’ offers festival audiences a place of calm and reflection, away from the festival frenzy of Lothian Road. The work is from the acclaimed video artist’s Transfigurations series and explores spirituality, birth and death. See review, page 95. The A major – and long overdue – retrospective exhibition, shining a light on one of the most enigmatic and unique Scottish painters of the 20th century, Edwin G Lucas. The show traces the life and career of Lucas, from early watercolours to bold, surrealist paintings in the 1940s and 50s. City Art Centre, until 10 Feb 2019, free.
Adam Lewis Jacob
94 THE LIST FESTIVAL 15–27 Aug 2018