More Edinburgh Art Festival highlights 2010

This article is from 2010.

Jupiter Artland

In addition to shows by Gilbert & George, Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth and Martin Creed, there are plenty of other highlights within the Edinburgh Art Festival programme.

Impressionist Gardens
After the hugely inspiring Impressionism and Scotland exhibition that drew large crowds to the National Galleries of Scotland back in 2008, this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival returns to the popular 19th century movement with a major international exhibition of around 90 works including loans from collections around the world such as the Musée d’Orsay and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The groundbreaking new show, which focuses on the recurring theme of gardens and flowers in some of the most beautiful and memorable works of the impressionist period, is the first ever on this subject and will not be visiting any other gallery in the UK.

In exploring the origins and development of the impressionist garden, the exhibition will feature works by famous names such as Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley, but will also feature many works by pioneering early 19th century flower painters including Delacroix and Corot, and includes a section exploring the worldwide influence of the impressionist garden, featuring works by Van Gogh, Klimt and Gauguin.
National Gallery Complex, The Mound, 0131 624 6200, 31 Jul–17 Oct, £10 (£7).

Mairi Gillies: Natura sensus
Edinburgh-based ‘Hortisculpturist’ Gillies explores the relationship between plants and people in a series of beautiful sculptural installations created from real and preserved plant material and referencing sacred and iconic imagery.
Atticsalt, Thistle Street North East Lane, 0131 225 2093, until 4 Sep, free.

Prints of Darkness
This celebration of record cover art takes the form of an exhibition featuring original prints by 11 Scottish artists, as well as a new LP of music by People Like Us AKA award-winning international multimedia artist Vicki Bennett.
Edinburgh Printmakers, Union Street, 0131 557 2479, until 4 Sep, free.

Jupiter Artland Year Two
This remarkable collection of works from Gormley, Goldsworthy and Jencks is merely added to this year with new site-specific pieces by Nathan Coley, Jim Lambie and Cornelia Parker, all carefully placed and landscaped into the environment, as is the Jupiter Artland way.
Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House, Nr Wilkieston, 01506 889 900, 29 Jul–5 Sep, £8.25 (kids £4); family ticket £18–£26.

Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists
Major survey of works by surrealist artists both familiar and arcane, including iconic works by the likes of Picasso, Dalí and Magritte, alongside supporting artefacts such as periodicals and manifestos.
Dean Gallery, Belford Road, 0131 624 6200, until 9 Jan, £7 (£5).

Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project
The 2009 Turner Prizewinner, known for his elaborate, intricate (though often ephemeral) geometric patterns in paint and gold leaf, creates a large-scale wall-based work for the newly refurbished Dean Gallery’s west stairwell.
Dean Gallery, Belford Road, 0131 624 6200, permanent, free.

Julie Roberts
One of the most important painters of her generation, Glasgow School of Art graduate Roberts exhibits new paintings on the subject of ‘the child’.
Talbot Rice Gallery, South Bridge, 0131 650 2210, 30 Jul–25 Sep, free.

Barbara Rae: Prints
The renowned Edinburgh-based artist unveils an exhibition of new works in printmaking, typically inspired by objects and wilderness landscapes of the USA and the west coast of Ireland.
Dundas Street Gallery, 0131 558 9363, 26 Jul–14 Aug, free.

Joan Mitchell
The renowned American abstract expressionist painter and contemporary of Lee Krasner, is celebrated in this, the first museum exhibition in the UK of her work, which features paintings on canvas and works on paper.
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Inverleith Row, 0131 248 2849, 27 Jul–19 Sep, free.

Iran do Espírito Santo
The first ever UK exhibition by Brazilian artist Espírito Santo combines intricate and large-scale wall drawings, conceived exclusively for the Ingleby, with beautifully realised minimalist sculptures created from stainless steel, glass, stone or paint on plaster.
Ingleby Gallery, Calton Road, 0131 556 4441, 29 Jul–25 Sep, free.

Gemma Holt & Richard Healy
London-based artists Holt and Healy examine the language of design through sculptural pieces and architectural techniques to explore notions of newness and subvert commonly used systems and codes.
Sierra Metro, West Harbour Road, 07971 510877, 1 Aug–12 Sep, free.

Plan B
This collaboration between Pulitzer prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon and the highly acclaimed Scottish photographer Norman McBeath has produced a series of poems and photographs based around the theme of life’s cock-ups, contingencies and conspiracies.
Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton’s Close, 0131 557 2876, 29 Jul–4 Sep, free.

Alexander and Susan Maris: The Pursuit of Fidelity (‘a retrospective’)
The first solo exhibition in Scotland of Glasgow-based artists Alexander and Susan Maris takes a journey through the last 20 years of their practice, moving between the mediums of photography, sound, sculpture, painting and drawing.
Stills, Cockburn Street, 0131 622 6200, 30 Jul–24 Oct, free.

David Sherry: Health + Safety Effect
The Glasgow-based Beck’s Futures-shortlisted artist, best known for his performance art, presents a selection of his short one-day interactive performance works in the foyers and entrance halls of the National Galleries.
The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, 0131 225 6671, 30 Jul–3 Aug, free.

City Beach
As part of the ‘Big Things on the Beach’ project, which has developed a public art plan for Portobello, City Beach presents three new site-specific artworks commissioned from local people over the course of the project.
Portobello Public Art House, Kings Road, 0131 669 7559, 25 Jul–5 Sep, free.

William Wegman: Family Combinations / Edward Weston: Life Work
Two exhibitions by pioneering American photographers for the price of one with a retrospective covering 25 years of cutting edge conceptual photography from Wegman and a survey of 115 prints by the highly influential Weston.
City Art Centre, Market Street, 0131 529 3993, 31 Jul–24 Oct, £8 (£5).

This article is from 2010.

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