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■ MARKETLANDS SHOPPING ARCADE The Barra’s Market, Moncur Street. Sat & Sun 10am–4pm. FREE Remembering Paddy’s Market–One Year On Until Sun 18 Jul. Photography by Chris Leslie.
■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Thu–Sat noon–5pm. FREE Sara Barker: Images ●●●●● Until Sat 31 Jul. See review, page 89.
■ MERCHANT GATE GALLERY 111 Saltmarket, 552 5847. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm & Sun 10am–4pm. FREE Summer Group Show Until Sun 27 Jun. Featuring Allan Black, Valentine Petrov and Shahin Memishi.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE Suite 6, Floor 1, 73 Robertson Street, 248 3711. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–5pm. FREE Mark Handforth Sat 12 Jun–Sat 24 Jul. Large-scale sculptural works from this Florida-based artist. See picture caption. ■ MONTGOMERY’S CAFE 9 Radnor Street, 357 1666. Daily 9am–6pm. FREE Expressions of Embodiment Sat 12–Sat 26 Jun. Featuring work by Stephanie Spindler, Lynn-Sayers McHattue and Anna Henson. Part of West End Festival.
■ PROJECT ABILITY Centre for the Developmental Arts, Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Young Talent Until Sat 24 Jul. Artwork created by young people who take part in the centre’s Create programme.
■ RECOAT 323 North Woodside Road, 341 0069. Tue–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Co-Laboratory Until Sun 25 Jul. Collaborative work from eight international creative partnerships. ■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Coast: Seascapes & Boats Until Wed 30 Jun. Artists include Malcolm John Cheape, Mairi Aitken and Pat Kramek. FREE Summer Exhibition Thu 8–Sat 31 Jul. Featuring Karen Cairns, Ellisa Haldenby and Owen Henderson.
■ SORCHA DALLAS 5 St Margaret’s Place, 553 2662. Tue–Sat 1–5pm. FREE Raphael Danke: Levitation Party Until Fri 9 Jul. Danke’s collages, photography and sculptures re-envisage the legacy of Surrealism.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Ayoung Kim: Ephemeral Ephemera ●●●●● Until Sun 1 Aug. See review, page 89. FREE Rimaldas Viksraitis: Grimaces of the Weary Village Until Sun 1 Aug. Solo exhibition by Lithuanian photographer. ■ TOUCHBASE BUSINESS CENTRE Milnpark Street, Kinning Park (between Portman St & Middlesex St), Daily 9am–5pm. FREE Sensing Outdoors Until Fri 3 Sep. Showcase of artwork done by Sense Scotland artists.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Christoph Buchel: Last Man Out Turn Off Lights
●●●●● Until Sun 18 Jul. Büchel has blown up a defunct aeroplane to set up a fictitious scenario.
■ TRANSMISSION GALLERY Trongate 103, 552 4813. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Must I Paint You A Picture? Tue 29 Jun–Sat 17 Jul. Annual members show.
■ WASPS STUDIO 77 Hanson Street, Dennistoun, 554 8299. Mon–Fri 10am–5.30pm; Sat & Sun 10am–4pm. FREE Retro Renaissance Until Sat 31 Jul. Leigh Chorlton plays with ideas of the Renaissance. ■ WELCOME HOME 19 Keith Street, Tue–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Prints Charming Until Sun 4 Jul. Exhibition and sale of affordable prints.
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■ 70 NORTH FORT STREET Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Built Overnight Sun 27 Jun–Sun 11 Jul. Artist-led group Rhubaba brings together the work of ten emerging visual artists. Part of Annuale. ■ ART AMATORIA 10 Bellevue Crescent, 07768 960578. Tue–Sat 2pm–5pm.
FREE Caroline Hepburne-Scott: New Work Thu 24 Jun–Thu 8 Jul. Drawings and landscapes. ■ ART’S COMPLEX St. Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, 661 1924. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE The Nine Lives of Medusa’s Cat Until Sun 4 Jul. Exhibition drawing together artists and musicians whose work explores mythological ideas. Part of Annuale. FREE Traces Sun 27 Jun–Thu 8 Jul. Work by graduating art therapists from Queen Margaret University.
■ ATTICSALT 50 Thistle Street, North East Lane, 225 2093. Thu & Fri 1.30pm–6pm. FREE Come Una Danza Until Sat 3 Jul. Paintings by Italian artist Susanna de Paolis.
■ AXOLOTL 35 Dundas Street, 07812 170279. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 1–5pm. FREE Sarah Wilson – The Jigsaw Woodcuts Until Sat 3 Jul. A series of new figurative prints taken from woodcuts. FREE Katie Cooke–Balancing Act Sat 3–Sat 31 Jul. Images created using a pin-hole camera. ■ THE BONGO CLUB Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. Mon–Fri 1pm–7pm. FREE Home is . . . Until Wed 30 Jun. This photography exhibition displays a varied selection of works that aim to challenge perceptions of homelessness.
Visual Art
■ COLLECTIVE GALLERY 22–28 Cockburn Street, 220 1260. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Torsten Lauschmann: Patchwork Cinema ●●●●● Until Sun 18 Jul. See review, page 89. ■ CORN EXCHANGE GALLERY Constitution Street, 561 7300. Wed–Sat 11am–4.30pm. FREE Jonathan Lynch: Legacy Until Thu 15 Jul. Photographs that investigates the empty interiors of historical houses.
■ DEAN GALLERY 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. Home to a world-famous selection of works from the Dada and surrealist movements and a large collection of works by Edinburgh-born sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. FREE Strange Encounters Until Sun 27 Jun. Works by Douglas Gordon, Martin Boyce and Robert Colquhoun. FREE Nathan Coley: There Will Be No Miracles Here Until Fri 31 Dec. Turner-nominated Scottish artist’s illuminated text.
■ DOVECOT 10 Infirmary Street, 315 3054. Daily 10.30am–7.30pm. FREE Matters: David Poston Fri 25 Jun–Sun 4 Jul. Poston has enjoyed a dual career as a sculptor and jeweller. ■ DUNDAS STREET GALLERY 6a Dundas Street, 558 9363. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm & Sat 11am–2pm. FREE Jamie Primrose – Ethereal Vistas Fri 2–Sat 10 Jul. Landscape paintings of Edinburgh scenes.
REVIEW FILM TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN: PATCHWORK CINEMA Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 18 Jul ●●●●●
Lauschmann’s unassuming new film work ‘Stuntmen in Skirts’ has to be one of the most enthralling moving images currently on display in Edinburgh. Impressive, considering there’s a film festival going on. The artist has animated a small portion of a soft black and white image depicting a 1920s Louise Brooks-style figure lying underneath a fallen motorcycle, her glowing headlight gently distorting its surface.
The artist’s practice can be characterised by an interest in differing approaches to performance, and new developments in software, coupled with an unwavering interest in film, have in the passed few years prompted a body of work that removes the need for him to appear. In his place, digital hybrids, such as this diminutive piece, assume an anthropomorphic appearance. With ‘Stuntmen in Skirts’ Lauschmann’s endlessly re- presentable vision of almost stillness elides the temporary and ephemeral nature of the live event, making this work appear as a cornerstone – almost mythical in effect – of not only the artist’s central concerns, but also of those of early cinema.
Working with one of the earliest forms of a camera obscura and the now obsolete slide projector, this exhibition pays marvellous homage to the moving image, from pre-cinema optics through to the digital projections to which we are accustomed. The central work, the ‘patchwork cinema’ itself, offers an endlessly charming, harem-style set-up and screens a consummate assemblage of found film footage including early cinema and animation. This is an astonishingly warm and timely exploration into the intrigue of the black box environment. (Rosalie Doubal)
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