ART & EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition ofCuban screen prints and original film posters.
I FINE ART SOCIETY 137 George Street. 220 6370. Mon—Fri 9.30am-5.30pm; Sat 10am—lpm.
Leonard Bosoman: Recent Paintings Until 15 Dec. Rosoman is an artist and muralist. trained as a drauglttsman. whose work is variously described as ‘funny. engaging and substantial‘ and ‘quirky. informed and intelligent'.
I FLYING COLOURS GALLERY 35 William Street. 225 6776. Tue—Fri 11am—6pm; Sat 10am—lpm.
Murray and Thorp Until 21 Dec. Still-life paintings by Cathy Murray. with painterly pastels of Edinburgh and environs by Selina Thorp.
I THE FRENCH INSTITUTE 13 Randolph Crescent. 225 5366. Mon—Fri 9.30am—5.30pm; Sat 9.30am»-l .30 pm. Manet: Elchings 1tH9 Dec. An exhibition of the 30 plates which were published asa set after Manct's death. including portraits of Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe.
I THE FRUITMARKET GALLERY Market Street. 225 2383. Tue—Sat 10am—5.30pm: Thurs l0am—7pm: Stilt noon—5.30pm. Adrian Wiszniewski: A Retrospective 1983—1990 8 Dec-3 Feb. One ofGlasgow's ‘New lmage' painters. Wiszniewski‘s ambitious figure paintings and drawings have won him international acclaim over the last ten years. This is the first major retrospective of his work and the artist will give an introduction to his work for students at noon 7 Dec. and for the public at 2pm on 8 Dec.
I GALERIE MIRAGES Raeburn Place. 315 2603. Tue—Fri 10.30am—4.30pm; Sat 10am—5pm. Closed Mondays.
Gifts from the East Until 31 Dec. Specially selected gifts from around the world. including pots. boxes. textiles and silver jewellerv.
‘ I GALLERY or MODERN ART Belford
Road. 5568921. Mon—Sat 10am—5pm: Sun
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The gallery‘s justly renowned cafe isopen Mon—Sat 10.30am—4.30pm‘. Sun 2.30-4.20an
The gallery's permanent display includes three new works of Surrealism by Picabia. Magritte and Giacometti.
Howard Hodgkin 8 Dec—24 Feb. ()ne of
Britain's foremost artists. Hodgkin is distinguished by the vitality and richness of colour and texture in his work. This
BRAVO SALGAOO
Sebastian Salgado, Stills Gallery Edinburgh.
In these depressing days, as those English bluebottles settle back on the steaming ordures of warmed-up Thatcherism, it is heartening to see good work by a successful Marxist humanist with a king-size fly-swat. Such is Salgado.
Sebastian Salgado achieved ore-eminence as a photo journalist in a relatively short time. An economist and fugitive from the Brazilian military dictatorship of the 60s, he came to work in London torthe International Coffee Organisation. While on assignment forlhem in Africa he started borrowing his wife's camera to illustrate reports and quickly found that the pictures made points more vividly than dry statistics. Since that time (the mid 70s) he has accumulated a world-wide body oi work and published three books: Other Americas, dealing with the strength of peasantry clinging to their lands; Man in Distress, on the Sahel; and The End of the Road, about Spain. The profits from the last two books were donated to Medecins sans Frontiers. In 1983 Salgado was given the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography. This touring exhibition is the first major review of his work.
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The show includes examples from some of Salgado’s long-term special projects such as his most recent one on manual labour. Soviet steel workers, Bangladeshi ship-breakers: the images are not all harrowing. There is plenty of humour and weirdness. His professed aim is to identify as far as possible with the subject and thereby maximise the viewer’s empathy. In pouring rain, ant-like, thousands of half-naked men clamber and slither on the side of a giant muddy pit. Swarming on rickety wooden ladders, bearing huge sacks of earth, they could be Zigguraf builders of ancient Sumeria. They are in fact the freelance Brazilian gold prospectors of the Amazonian Sierra Pelada doing their thing in the late 803. From the Inca-haunted Ecuadorian highlands, a dead man shrouded in shaggy animal pelts lies open eyed so that he can see his way into the next world. From the Sahel, the all too familiar: an emaciated baby drooping from a weighing scale like offal in a nightmare butchers.
if we in the rich ‘First World’ cannot react with good sense and generosity to the underpinning appeal of all these pictures we must soon (as my Yankee friends would say) kiss our backsides and the whole planet goodbye. (Patrick Vidaud)
exhibition concentrates on his smaller pictures. many of them painted in the 1980s. and will also be shown in Barcelona and Dublin.
I GAYFIELO GALLERY 77a Broughton Street. 556 2553. Mon—Sat 11am—6pm.
FRUITMARKET GALLERY
8 December - 3 February, 1991
ADRIAN WISZNIEWSKI
Mon-Sat10-5.30 Thurs-7 Sun 12-5 Closed Mon 25, 26 Dec, 1, 2 Jan 29 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF Telephone: 031-225 2383
Subsidised by the Scottish Arts Council
Work by David Hutchison 7—31 Dec. Mixed media.
I GRAEME MURRAY GALLERY 15 Scotland Street, 556 6020. Tue—Fri 10am—5pm; Sat 10am—lpm.
Powertry Until 26 Jan. New paintings by
Spanish artist Rogelio Lopez Cuenca.
I HANOVER FINE ART 22a Dundas Street. 556 2181. Mon—Fri 10am—6pm; Sat 10am-4pm.
Small Paintings for Christmas Until 5 Jan. A mixed exhibition ofover 150 works by around 50 gallery artists. includingoils. watercolours and pastels; also sculpture. woodcarvings. textiles and prints.
I HOLYROOO HOUSE Canongatc. 556 1096. Mon—Sat 9.30am—3.45pm. ‘ Windsor in Watercolour Until 16 Mar. From the Royal Collection. 32 drawings and watercolours by Thomas and Paul Sandby. including many of their finest Windsor watercolours.
I HUNTLY HOUSE MUSEUM (‘anongate. 557 2480. Mon-Sat ill—5pm
Dear Mr Gorbachev Until 28 Jan. A selection of the many thousands oflettcrs. including one from Paul McCartney. written during the last few years ofCiorby fever.
I THE ITALIAN INSTITUTE 82 Nicoison Street, 668 2232. Mon—Fri 10am—5pm. No exhibitions at present.
I KINGFISHER GALLERY Northumberland Street Lane. 557 5454. Tue-Sat 10am—4.30pm: Sat 10am—1pm.
Donald Hamilton Fraser HA: New Paintings Until 15 Dec. An accomplished painter and art historian. Fraser's many and varied works are exhibited in collections all over the world. Since 1977 he has worked in screenprint.
Permanent collection of Russian and French painting and sculpture.
I MALCOLM INNES GALLERY 67 (ieorge Street. 226 4151. Mon~Fri 9.30am—6pm: Sat 10am-lpm.
Christmas Exhibition Until 22 Dec. Mixed exhibition of work by contemporary artists.
I NAPIER POLYTECHNIC (.‘raiglockhart Campus. 219 Colinton Road. info4-14 2266 ext 4356. Mon—Sat 10am—5pm.
The Same Plane of Existence tintil 14 Dec. The only Scottish showing for this exhibition by Trinidadian sculptor Francisco Cabral. previously at the Barbican Centre. London. A rare chance to view West Indian art. in Cabral‘s case described as ‘disturbingand thought-provoking.
I NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND The Mound. 556 8921. Mon—Sat 10am—5pm; Sun 2—5pm.
Giulio Sanulo and the Italian Printmakers of the IGII‘I CEIIIUTY Until 16 Dec. Sanutowas an artist ofgreat technical and imaginative powers. whose Apollo and .ilursyus . one of the largest and most spectacular 16th century ltalian prints. forms the centrepiece ofthis exhibition. Much of his work interprets pictures by his great contemporaries. notably Titian. Centenary Display from Hospitaliield L'ntil 13Jan. Paintings. sculpture and furniture from the collection of Patrick Allan Fraser.
I NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND (ieorge IV Bridge 2264531. Mon-‘I‘rl 9.30am-8.30pm; Sat 9.30am-5pm; Sun
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University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge. Tel:0316671011ext4308
8th Dec - 22nd Dec "Elementary Structures" H. DIETER PIETSCH (Artist in Residence)
Tues—Sat TOam-Spm Admission Free
Submdmpd by tho
Scottishfirts Council
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