Ingrid Calame at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scottland, 2011
Calame discusses creating a site specific pounce wall drawing LA River at Clearwater Street for this museum mid-career retrospective.
Phyllida Barlow: set at The Fruitmarket Gallery until 18 October 2015
A major exhibition of new work made specially for The Fruitmarket Gallery by Phyllida Barlow, one of the international art world’s brightest stars. Born in Newcastle in 1944, and with a career spanning five decades, Barlow is known for monumental sculpture made from simple materials such as plywood, cardboard, fabric, plaster, paint and plastic. Physically impressive and materially insistent, her sculptures are inspired by the outside world, and with the experience of living and looking.
Barlow’s exhibition sets out, in her own words, to ‘turn the Gallery upside down’. A new series of large sculptures engulf The Fruitmarket Gallery in art, spilling from the upper gallery over the staircase and into the ground floor, enticing the visitor from the street and into a new world.
Johan Grimonprez at The Fruitmarket Gallery
Exhibition 22 May 11 July 2010
Belgian artist and film-maker Johan Grimonprez (born in 1962) is internationally renowned for his complex film and video montages which combine footage from various sources to explore the troubled relationship the modern, multiply- media led world has with its own social, cultural, historical and political identity.
Grimonprez first came to prominence in 1997 when dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, a 68-minute long media history of aeroplane hijackings, was shown at Documenta X, Kassel, and took the art world by storm. At the end of last year, he released Double Take, a feature-length film of odd couples and double-deals that casts Alfred Hitchcocks work and persona as central to and reflective of a world in flux. The work uses techniques familiar from dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and was similarly well-received.
This exhibition is the first British Gallery showing of Double Take, and presents it together with dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and two much earlier works which draw on research undertaken in a province of Papua New Guinea during the artists postgraduate studies in cultural anthropology. These early films, with their emphasis on one cultures attempt to reconcile its sense of itself with that of another, provide a telling context for the later works.
All the works in the exhibition are informed by Grimonprezs insistent, persistent and political enquiry into the power of the moving image. His use of juxtaposition references the television remote control and the ability it gives a viewer to zap from one image to the next. As news broadcasts meet advertisements, clips from TV shows and Hollywood films, a new narrative is created in which reality and fiction become blurred, contested ideas.
Grimonprez makes familiar images seem novel, at once frightening and humorous, subjective and objective. His work reveals and subverts the role the moving image can play in the construction of our personal and political histories, our fears and aspirations, and the way we look at the world and ourselves.
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Tacita Dean, Woman with a Red Hat at The Fruitmarket Gallery, 7 July – 30 September 2018
British-European artist Tacita Dean (b.1965) has a wide-ranging practice that includes drawings, photographs, installations and collections of found objects and images, but she is best known for her use of film, and her advocacy for its preservation as an artistic medium.
This year, Dean has presented three major exhibitions in London around the themes of landscape, portraiture and still life. This present exhibition complements these, but is distinct from them, exploring the artist’s approaches to theatre, performance and narrative. In the context of Edinburgh’s festivals, the work in this exhibition speaks to the vitality of the performing arts in the city over the summer months.
The title – Woman with a Red Hat – is taken from the film Event for a Stage, around which the exhibition pivots. Originally commissioned for the 2014 Sydney Biennale as a live theatre piece, the work was Dean’s first foray into the theatre and her first experience of working with an actor. The film is an intricate interweaving of the four consecutive performances of the piece. The fierce interplay between the artist and the actor, Stephen Dillane, as they struggle to understand and accommodate each other’s artforms makes for a compelling, complex investigation into the balance of reality and illusion in both.
Other works in the exhibition expand upon the themes explored in Event for a Stage, looking at the figure of the actor, the role and workings of the script, and the construction of sound and narrative in film.The works range from the early installation Foley Artist,that dramatises the fiction of cinematic sound, to the recent film miniature His Picture in Little, featuring three actors who have all played Hamlet on the London stage. Together, the works in the exhibition ask us to consider the ways in which theatrical artifice can transport us, and ultimately deliver truth through fiction.
Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK )
Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK )
Edinburgh is Scotland's compact, hilly capital. It has a medieval Old Town and elegant Georgian New Town with gardens and neoclassical buildings. Looming over the city is Edinburgh Castle, home to Scotland’s crown jewels and the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish rulers. Arthur’s Seat is an imposing peak in Holyrood Park with sweeping views, and Calton Hill is topped with monuments and memorials.
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 local government council areas. Located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore, Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is home to the Scottish Parliament and the seat of the monarchy in Scotland. The city is also the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. It is the largest financial centre in the UK after London.
Historically part of Midlothian, the city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, the sciences and engineering. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, was placed 17th in the QS World University Rankings in 2013 and 2014. The city is also famous for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. The city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most popular tourist destination after London, attracting over one million overseas visitors each year. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town, built in the 18th century. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999.
Situated in Scotland's Central Belt, Edinburgh lies on the Firth of Forth's southern shore. The city centre is 2 1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) southwest of the shoreline of Leith and 26 miles (42 km) inland, as the crow flies, from the east coast of Scotland and the North Sea at Dunbar.[56] While the early burgh grew up near the prominent Castle Rock, the modern city is often said to be built on seven hills, namely Calton Hill, Corstorphine Hill, Craiglockhart Hill, Braid Hill, Blackford Hill, Arthur's Seat and the Castle Rock
Edinburgh Airport is Scotland's busiest and biggest airport and the principal international gateway to the capital, handling around 11 million passengers in 2015. Travel in Edinburgh is undertaken predominantly by bus. Lothian Buses operate the majority of city bus services within the city and to surrounding suburbs, with the most routes running via Princes Street. Services further afield operate from the Edinburgh Bus Station off St Andrew Square and Waterloo Place and are operated mainly by Stagecoach, Scottish Citylink, National Express Coaches, First Scotland East & Perryman's Buses. Edinburgh Waverley Station is the second-busiest railway station in Scotland, with only Glasgow Central handling more passengers.
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Holyrood Palace
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Princes Street
Edinburgh Castle
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Our Dynamic Earth
Scott Monument
The Georgian House, Edinburgh
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Surgeons' Hall
Edinburgh Zoo
Museum of Childhood
Edinburgh Waverley railway station
Inchcolm
Water of Leith
Inchcolm Abbey
Craigmillar Castle
Scottish Parliament Building
Gladstone's Land
Museum of Edinburgh
John Knox House
National War Museum
Holyrood Abbey
Greyfriars Kirk
National Monument of Scotland
Pentland Hills
Greyfriars Kirkyard
Murrayfield Stadium
Fruitmarket Gallery
Heart of Midlothian
Kirk of the Canongate
Dean Gallery
Royal Scottish Academy Building
Blackford Hill
Calton Hill
Dean Village
Writers' Museum
The Canongate
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh
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Anna Barriball at The Fruitmarket Gallery, 21 January -- 9 April 2012
Anna Barriball (born 1972, Plymouth, lives and works in London) makes work which moves between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture, often using the practice of drawing to create something which might be more properly understood to be sculpture.
Sheets of paper pressed insistently by her pencil up against windows, walls and doors become heavily material objects, while things in the world -- windbreaks, found photographs, a fireplace -- are redrawn as artworks through subtle alteration.
This exhibition brings together work made over the last ten years, and encompasses drawing, sculpture and video. It includes the kind of works on paper for which Barriball first became known, and also major new commissions: a large
windbreak sculpture and a wall drawing.
Organised by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in collaboration with MK Gallery, Milton Keynes. Exhibition supported by The Henry Moore Foundation
Martin Creed: Down Over Up at The Fruitmarket Gallery 30 July - 31 October 2010
A major exhibition of new and recent work by Martin Creed, one of Britain's most highly-regarded and popular artists. Creed's work captures the public imagination, while also attracting critical acclaim for its generous, accessible approach. He puts ideas out in the world in a variety of materials, not all of them art materials yet not all of them everyday stuff either (while he makes work with readily available, simple things such as planks of wood, stacked chairs or pieces of crumpled paper; he also uses paint, a traditional artist's material, and professionally trained runners and ballet dancers, neither of which are particularly easy to get hold of). In 2001 he won the Turner Prize with Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, and in 2008 responded to the prestigious Duveen Commission at Tate Britain with the phenomenally popular Work No. 850, in which runners sprinted through the gallery at 30-second intervals.
Consisting of recent and newly-commissioned work, this exhibition focuses on stacking and progression in size, height and tone -- stacks of planks, chairs, tables, boxes, pieces of lego; series of paintings; and works making use of the musical scale. Creed talks about these works in terms of a picture of growth; showing process, progress and things in movement. A highlight of the exhibition is a new commission in which Creed turns the Gallery's staircase into a synthesizer, with each step sounding a different note on the scale as the audience walks up or down.
The exhibition's focus on progression -- on going up and down steps -- gives a context to a new permanent work of public sculpture currently in development. Part of a City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh World Heritage renovation of Edinburgh's Scotsman Steps, this work is commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery and supported through the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund for Edinburgh Art Festival 2010. Creed plans to resurface the Steps with different and contrasting marbles from all over the world, creating a visually spectacular, beautiful and thoughtful response to this historic artery. Keep checking back for more information on the project.
To coincide with Martin Creed's exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Sadler's Wells and The Fruitmarket Gallery are presenting Martin Creed's Ballet: Work No. 1020 at the Traverse Theatre as part of the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A piece for dancers, live band, art and the artist, this is a funny and thoughtful work by Creed. Based around the five positions in ballet and the notes of the musical scale, the ballet speaks eloquently to the incremental impulses at play in Creed's work; the ordering and re-ordering of the everyday which gives his work its particular magic.
City of edinburgh Council Youth literacies Unit
These short films were made by a young group of new animators in Macdonald road library, Edinburgh. Made with City of edinburgh Council Youth literacies Unit and Fruitmarket gallery.
Tim Crouch: England
excerpt from second act as performed at the Fruitmarket Gallery during the Edinburgh Festival 2007. Performers are Tim Crouch and Hannah Ringham. Play by Tim Crouch.
You can see this award winning play from Friday 8 May—Tuesday 16 June 2009 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London E1. see for special offers and how to buy tickets:
Cafe Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of a Cafe in Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art on ancestry visit to Edinburgh
Edinburgh Art Festival Detours: Simon Munnery at Ingleby Gallery
Providing fresh perspectives on visual art, Festival Detours is a series of intimate live performances in Edinburgh's leading galleries by stars from the worlds of music, comedy, theatre, poetry and prose. Each year we invite performers to respond in their own particular way to their favourite artworks featured in the Edinburgh Art Festival programme.
Simon Munnery is a prolific, innovative and risk-taking British comedian who has been presenting new work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every year since the nineties. In response to the exhibition Ian Hamilton Finlay: Twilight Remembers, Simon presented - amongst other things - a live action and live animation homage to the artist's 1977 film, Carrier Strike, and a venn diagram explaining the relationship between comedy and art.
For more information about the Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2012, please visit:
Festival Detours is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival. This film is by Precious Productions.
edinburghartfestival.com
triggerstuff.co.uk
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David Batchelor: On Colour and Darkness
Batchelor’s work comprises three-dimensional structures, photographs, paintings and drawings, and it mostly relates to a long term interest in colour and urbanism. He has exhibited widely in the UK, continental Europe, the Americas and, more recently, Asia. Recent exhibitions include Flatlands, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh/Spike Island, Bristol (2013/14); Magic Hour, Gemeentmuseum, The Hague (2012); Chromophilia: 1995-2010, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2010); Color Chart, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008) and Tate Liverpool (2009); Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2005); the Biennial de Santiago, Chile (2005); Shiny Dirty, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2004); the 26th Bienal De São Paulo (2004); Sodium and Asphalt, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2003); and Days Like These: Tate Britain Triennial of Contemporary Art, Tate Britain, London (2003). In January 2015 Batchelor will be making a large-scale installation at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, as a part of their exhibition Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015.
Chromophobia, Batchelor’s book on colour and the fear of colour in the West, was published by Reaktion Books, London, in 2000 and is now available in eight languages. His new book on colour, The Luminious and the Grey, was also published by Reaktion Books in February 2014. Colour (2008), an anthology of writings on colour from 1850 to the present, edited by Batchelor, is published by Whitechapel, London and MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. His book of photographs, Found Monochromes: vol.1, nos.1-250 (2010), is published by Ridinghouse, London.
Childish Things at The Fruitmarket Gallery 19 November 2010 -- 23 January 2011
Childish Things is The Fruitmarket Gallery's second collaboration with David Hopkins, Professor of Art History at the University of Glasgow; acknowledged authority on Marcel Duchamp, dada and surrealism; increasingly renowned writer on contemporary art; and curator of the popular 2006 Fruitmarket Gallery exhibition Dada's Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art.
Like Dada's Boys before it, Childish Things has its origins in dada and surrealism, but this new exhibition includes no dada or surrealist art. Rather, it looks at a post-dada/ surrealist interest in toys as signifiers of what Hopkins terms a 'dark poetics' of childhood, bringing together the work of seven senior and historically-significant artists from Britain and the United States. As always in Hopkins's exhibitions, each work by each artist has been carefully chosen for its relevance to, and illumination of his initial line of enquiry -- each piece speaks volumes, of childhood and its related anxieties; of Hopkins's ideas about childhood and its related anxieties; and of the power of art to make a context in which to think ideas through. The works displayed in the exhibition are major works by artists at the top of their game: they react with each other and with the theme of the exhibition, but are in no way confined, brimming over with meanings too complex to sit easily in anyone's box. Childish Things celebrates their independent force as much as the way in which they may be brought together.
Phyllida Barlow in conversation with Fiona Bradley and Briony Fer
Phyllida Barlow in conversation with Fiona Bradley, Director, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art, UCL.
Centre for Study of Contemporary Art (CSCA), University College London, Monday 9 June 2014.
Lucian Michael Freud 弗洛伊德盧西恩(1922-2011) British painter Expressionism, Surrealism, Realism
Lucian Freud, in full Lucian Michael Freud (born December 8, 1922, Berlin, Germany—died July 20, 2011, London, England) British artist known for his work in portraiture and the nude. Sometimes called a realist, he painted in a highly individual style, which in his later years was characterized by impasto.
British painter and draughtsman. Freud spent most of his career in Paddington, London, an inner-city area whose seediness is reflected in Freud's often sombre and moody interiors and cityscapes. In the 1940s he was principally interested in drawing, especially the face. He experimented with Surrealism. He was also loosely associated with Neo-Romanticism. He established his own artistic identity, however, in meticulously executed realist works, imbued with a pervasive mood of alienation.
Two important paintings of 1951 established the themes and preoccupations that dominated the rest of Freud's career: Interior in Paddington (Liverpool, Walker A.G.) and Girl with a White Dog (London, Tate). Both paintings demonstrate an eagerness to establish a highly charged situation, in which the artist is free to explore formal and optical problems rather than expressive or interpretative ones.
By the late 1950s brushmarks became spatial as he began to describe the face and body in terms of shape and structure, and often in female nudes the brushstrokes help to suggest shape. Throughout his career Freud's palette remained distinctly muted.
A close relationship with sitters was often important for Freud. His mother sat for an extensive series in the early 1970s after she was widowed, and his daughters Bella and Esther modelled nude, together and individually. Although the human form dominated his output, Freud also executed cityscapes, viewed from his studio window, and obsessively detailed nature studies. The 1980s and early 1990s were marked by increasingly ambitious compositions in terms of both scale and complexity.
J. Rothenstein: Modern English Painters (London, 1974), iii, pp. 192–200
Lucian Freud (exh. cat., intro. J. Russell; London, Hayward Gal., 1974)
L. Gowing: Lucian Freud (London, 1982)
Lucian Freud: Paintings (exh. cat., intro. R. Hughes; Washington, DC, Smithsonian Inst.; Paris, Pompidou; London, Hayward Gal.; W. Berlin, N.G.; 1987)
Lucian Freud: Works on Paper (exh. cat., intro. N. Penny; Oxford, Ashmolean; Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gal.; Hull, Ferens A.G.; and elsewhere; 1988)
Lucian Freud: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1990–91 (exh. cat., texts B. Mantura and A. Cook; Milan, Castello Sforzesco; Liverpool, Tate; 1991)
Martin Creed, L'espresso Video Interview
from the Opening night of 'I Like Things', Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
24 May 2006
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