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Edinburgh Art Festival 2008
15 Aug 2008
Thought summer in Edinburgh was just about seeing theatre and comedy? Think again. Edinburgh is second to London in the number of visual art galleries populating a UK capital city. The Edinburgh Art Festival is in its fifth year and brings together the city’s galleries, museums and visual art spaces to present the best, exciting and most intriguing in the modern and contemporary visual arts. Runs until 31 August 2008.
David A Hardy, 3000 miles from the Moon, 1955, Courtesy of Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
The exciting visual arts programme gives you the choice of more than 130 exhibitions and events which takes you from Impressionism & Scotland, to the imaginary worlds of international artists, to work by artists you may not yet know.
'ink, ~ in the fields, 2008. Courtesy of the artists
Headlining the 2008 Edinburgh Art Festival is a series of major surveys including a Tracey Emin 20-year retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; celebrated Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller at the Fruitmarket Gallery; Alexander Heim at Doggerfisher; Andrew Grassie paintings at Talbot Rice Gallery; Richard Hamilton Protest Pictures at Inverleith House; Elizabeth Blackadder at the Scottish Gallery; Chad McCail at Edinburgh Print Makers, and Richard Wilson at The Grey Gallery (once again in temporary residence in a derelict warehouse).
Alongside this, many of the exhibitions presented in spaces participating in the EAF for the first time this year will also feature work by groups of artists. For example The Golden Record, Sounds of the Earth at Collective will feature the records included with the two Voyager spacecraft and Mutatis Mutandis at Embassy showcases work that moves between performance installation, photography, video and painting.
And if that’s not enough there is a fantastic schedule of artists’ talks, screenings, debates, tours and family projects - with StickerCurator, and an expanded Art Late (28 August) among the highlights which includes a programme of events in at least 12 galleries involving guest Djs, comedy, poetry and more.
For more information view www.edinburghartfestival.com
