ART & EXHIBITIONS LIST
The Artists’ Collective Gallery
52-54 High Street. Edinburgh EHl ITB 03 l -556 2600 Tue/\Ned/Thur/Fri 12.30-5.30 Sat l0.00-5.00
THE COLLECTIVE FESTIVAL SHOWS
9-3 I st Aug
Two shows of members work. At the High Street Gallery and at
Edinburgh College of Art. Laurtston Place. Studio 47. Mon-Sat l0.00-5.30.
Both shows selected and hung by Alice Batn, Mark Francs and Andrew Nalrne.
SPECIAL EVENT: PERFORMANCE DUO--DOGS IN HONEY from
l8-22 Aug tn the High Street Gallery. ... E
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ROYAL FINE ART {,7 COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND a .- ' . ‘ EXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURE ‘GLASGOW,
THE CLYDE AND NEXT YEAR’S
GARDEN FESTIVAL’
8—31 August 10am—4pm
Admission Free 9 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh Tel. (131 229 1109
Festival Exhibitions at the Talbot Rice Gallery
MADE FROM GIRDERS
Featuring the work of a great many photographers, this important exhibition examines the changing industrial landscape of Scotland in the 19th and 20th centuries. It’s a unique chance to enjoy a significant contribution to Scotland’s photographic achievement Sponsored by Mobil
JEWELS OF THE AHCIEHTS
A rare opportunity to see the sensational, even controversial, Sackler collection of Near Eastern Jewellery.
As the first major exhibition of its kind in Scotland, it is an impressive and provocative event not to be missed.
7 August to 12 September 1987 Monday to Saturday I 0.00am-5.00pm
Sunday 2.00-5.00pm Admission Free Strata; TALBOT RICE agar _ GALLERY
FRENCH MASTERS
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National Gallery, Edinburgh
This exhibition will otter a way oi looking at the history oi French painting (c1 415-1900) through the rawest bones oi its structure since nearly all the drawings shown here were made in the service oi painting (or to a lesser extent sculpture).
One at the pleasures at this exhibition is that it brings together so many major artists working in dratt, including Claude. Poussin. Vlatieau, Boucher, Gericault, Degas. Daumier, Lautrec and Cezanne. The resulting chronology readily invites comparison between eras, irom the early delicacy oi the Intematlonal Gothic inthe 15th century to the high drama at the19th.
Painting in the seventeth century was held iirrnly in the grip oi the classicising principles oi the Academy which iavoured a sculptural or plastic approach to ionn and well-balanced compostion. Typical are drawings showing complex arrangements at tlgures lit by an even, undramatic light sothe highlights tall regularly across the picture surtace with all the even uniiormity oi a
Gallery of Modern Art during the Festival (see below).
0 GALLERY OF MODERN ART Belford Road. 556 8921. During Festival Mon—Sat 10am—6pm, Sun 11am—6pm. Outside Festival Mon—Sat 10am—5pm. Sun 2-5pm. Rest. [D]
The Vigorous Imagination: New Scottish Art Sat 9 Aug Sun 25 Oct. Long-awaited International Festival exhibition of contemporary Scottish art — the first in its 40 year-old history. It will include sculpture (by David Mach). photography (by Colvin and O‘Donnell). installations (by Kate Whiteford and Sam Ainsley) and paintings (by Currie. Howson. Campbell and Wiszniewski) and many others. Not to be missed. (See Festival feature.)
A Gala Celebration Tues 18—Sun 23 Aug. Performance begins at 6pm. £4 (£2). The continuing collaboration between Glasgow—based Rotating Dancers, visual
classical irieze. Poussin. who worked irom scale models which he carefully positioned and re-positioned in a small box till hetound the right eiiect. is an extreme and rather dry example. Others are Bourdon. Le Seur, La Hyre and Blanchard.
This restraint gives way to a much more radical treatment by the early 19th century and Gericault's drawing oi A Stable Boy Grooming a Horse is full oiarresting syncopated rhythms. Daumier, a supreme draughtsman oi the mid-19th uses line in crayon, pen and ink and watercolour to get right inside every hypocritical nuance he iound in the laces oi the establishment he satlrlsed so ettectively and his assured graphic style spares no sensitivity in searching out the physical detormitles and awkward bony tlgures oi the poor.
The exhibition is accompanied by an excellent catalogue in which the last word is given to Cezanne announcing a new design-based aesthetic in which emotion and drama had no longer had any part. (Sally Kinnes)
artist Keith McIntyre and musician Derek Houghton throws a myriad of arts into a performance based on the traditions and legends of Borders country. Recommended.
0 GATEWAY EXCHANGE 2~4 Abbeymount. 6610982. Mon—Sat 9am—1 1pm.
Flash Bang Wallopl Until Sat 29 Aug. A wide-ranging selection of innovative photography.This is the first exhibition to be held in the newly refurbished gallery. George Blair- Photomontage Until Sat 29 Aug. Are there Job Centres on the moon? Has your dinner party ever been upset by a commando leaping through the window? Blair asks us to take a look at the images which pound into our lives through the media and not to take the colour supplement image straight up.
0 GRAEME MURRAY GALLERY 15 Scotland Street 556 6020 Tue—Sat 11am—5pm.
The Rigorous Imagination Sat 8 Aug—Sat 19
54 The List 7 — 20 August