n FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street. 225 2383. Mon—Sat l lam-6pm; Sun noon—5pm.
The Wayward Thinker Until Sun 8 Apr. Free. The first European solo exhibition by young Atnerican artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is a theatrical experience. drawing the viewer into an epic. mythologized autobiographical project.
n MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street. 247 4219. Mon & Wed—Sat 10am—5pm; Tue 10am—8pm: Sun noon—5pm. Free.
The Cutting Edge - Scotland’s Contemporary Crafts Until Thu 29 Mar. A major new touring exhibition of the very best of contemporary Scottish crafts features silverwork by Adrian Hope. Michael Lloyd and Malcolm Appleby. jewellery by Peter Chang. Dorothy Hogg and Jack Cunningham. glass by Keiko Mukaide and Ray Flavell and textiles by Jilli Blackwood and Laura Murray.
n NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND
The Mound. 624 6200. Mon—Wed & Fri—Sun 10am—5pm; Thu 10am—7pm. Alexander Nasmyth: An Enlightened Gentleman Sat 3
Mar—Sun 29 Apr. Free. Two new displays
celebrating the life and career of one of Scotland’s leading Enlightenment painters. NEW SHOW
n THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse. 556 5 l0(). Daily 9.30am—6pm; 9.30am—2pm. £5 (£4.50).
Amazing Bare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery Fri 2 Mar-Sun 16 Sep. £5 (free-£4.50; family ticket £l3). Curated by the Royal Collection in collaboration with Sir David Attenborough. this exhibition brings together the work of four artists — Leonardo da Vinci. Cassiano dal Pox/o. Alexander Marshal. Maria Sibylla Merian and Mark Catesby — who have helped shape contemporary understanding of the natural world. See Around Town. page 25. NEW SHOW
n RIAS GALLERY
l5 Rutland Square. 22‘) 75-15. Mon—Fri 9am—5pm.
Place, Programme and Presence Until Fri 9 Mar. Exhibition showing the creative partnership between architects Graeme Hutton and [)avid Jameson. and their efforts to create buildings which establish legitimate relationships with their context. UkST CHANCE TO SEE
n ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN (INVERLEITH HOUSE)
lnverleith Row. 552 7l7l. Daily l0am—5pm.
Andrew Miller: Sixes and Sevens Until Sun l5 Apr. Reflecting a preoccupation with modernist architecture and design. Miller‘s art questions the functionality of objects — from abandoned huts. disused municipal swings and new sculptures made for lnverleith House and the adjacent ‘secret garden'.
Juergen Teller: Awailable 1 Until Sun 15 Apr. See review. page 89.
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The Mound. 225 6671. Mon—Sat l0am—5pm; Sun noon—5pm. Darkspace II Thu l—Sun ll Mar. Emerging fine-art film makers in Scotland who push the boundaries of convention by employing the latest technologies. NEW SHOW
n NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART
75 Belford Road. 624 6200. Daily 10am—5pm; noon—5pm.
Off the Wall Until Mon 28 May. [Exhibition examining how contemporary
artists like Jim Lambie and Nathan Coley
have colonised the floorspace of galleries.
Rosie Lesso speaks to artist Lucy Skaer, who has curated La femme de nulle part.
Bosle Lesso What does the title
of the show refer to?
Lucy Skaer It translates as ‘The
woman from nowhere’. It's the title of a 1922 silent film by Louis Delluc, in which a woman from nowhere arrives at the home she had abandoned years earlier, instigating an eventually failed rebellion by the lady of the house.
The works in the show investigate
the manufacture of histories, and their possible overthrow.
BL How have you found the
experience of curating the work of
others?
LS I think I put together work in quite a similar way to my own art practice. making intuitive combinations of work and using them to reveal ideas and themes, rather than the other way around.
BL Do their ideas or the ideas behind this exhibition relate to your practice?
LS Not in a direct sense. The works in the exhibition allow me to think through different routes and perspectives. rather than my own familiar ones.
BL Who will be exhibiting in the space?
Ls There are three artists in the show: Anita Di Bianco, Sophie Macpherson and Rosalind Nashashibi. They are artists that I know very well. and that I have worked with before (Hanneline Visnes and I act in Anita's film ‘Disaffection and Disaffectation' and I collaborate with Rosalind).
BL How will you use the space at
Doggerfisher?
L8 The use of the gallery space is
central to the way that l have been thinking about the show. The gallery is divided. so that visitors have to pass through a dark space where Anita’s film is shown to get in to the rest of the gallery. I want the installation of the work to be quite confrontational. Both Anita and Sophie are making new works, and Sophie will be responding to the space by making a new installation.
n La femme de nulle part, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, until Sat 28 Apr.
Visual Art
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