Around the galleries
In August, all eyes turn to Edinburgh, but there are also major fairs in Bamberg and Belgium.
Isabel Andrews, Sunday, 22nd June 2008
For this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival – part of the Edinburgh International Festival – The Grey Gallery is exhibiting works by Richard Wilson RA in a disused warehouse, courtesy of Lyon and Turnbull auctioneers. During the 1987 Edinburgh Festival Wilson showed 20:50 – a room half-filled with reflective sump oil that was later bought by Saatchi. More recently he unveiled his architectural installation Turning the Place Over as part of Liverpool’s year as European City of Culture 2008 (Fig. 1). A documentary by the artist about the installation is one of four films on a continuous loop in the show, together with works on paper and a sculpture that shed light on Wilson’s creative process (1-31 August; 10 Old Broughton, Edinburgh, +44 [0]7910 359086).
A trio of concurrent shows is at the Open Eye Gallery (34 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, +44 [0]131 557 1020). ‘Leon Morrocco – From Melbourne to Marrakech’ (9 August-3 September) charts the artist’s travels through European countries with plein air drawings and large studio paintings, of which a particular highlight is the passion-filled Still Life with Red Chiles, 2008. ‘Picasso and the School of Paris’ (9 August-22 September) includes works by Chagall, Braque and Miró as well as Picasso’s seductive etching Le Repos du Sculpteur (1933), from La Suite Vollard. Also on show is ceramic sculpture by John Maltby (9 August-3 September), whose influences range from Picasso and Klee to Bernard Leach, with whom he worked in the early 1960s. Further contemporary carving is on offer in ‘Singing Stone: Recent Work by Emily Young’ at Bourne Fine Art (6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, 1 August-6 September; +44 [0]131 557 4050). Using marble, chalcedony, quartzite and alabaster, Young’s monumental heads and other depictions of the human form are informed by classical sculpture.
Doggerfisher (11 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, +44 [0]131 558 7110) is showing ‘Doves’ (31 July-13 September), the first solo exhibition of an emerging artist, Alexander Heim, who was recently included in the ‘Nought to Sixty’ ICA group exhibition. With beguiling simplicity, Heim fuses natural materials with found objects for his minimalist works, and uses paper, sculpture, ceramics, film and photography. For further information about the festival go to www.edinburghartfestival.org.
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