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1/8/2012

30 exhibitions

Summerhall, Edinburgh

Highlights include Carolee Schneemann’s ‘Remain to be Seen’ where three major video installations will be exhibited along with a new large wall work created in situ at Summerhall during the artist’s visit as well as a performative lecture from Schneemann on Saturday 4th August. Jean Paul Pierre Muller’s new colourful external show, ‘7x7th Street’ incorporates music from seven of the world’s leading composers and David Michalek’s new work “Figure Studies” is an homage to the cinematic and photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge.

A major installation by Polish artist, Robert Kusmirowski comes to Summerhall following his popular ‘Bunker’ installation at the Barbican and there is a retrospective of international avant-garde artist Wolf Vostell. An Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition displays work inspired by the French Revolution and a small but significant retrospective of the influential work of the conceptual art collective Art & Language will also be sited at Summerhall.

Another collective of young talented Edinburgh artists is Static State who are taking over Summerhall’s basement with an extensive group show.

Finally an important aspect of Summerhall’s artistic programming will be a selection of works by The Demarco Edinburgh Arts Foundation which focuses on art from the 60 year history of the Demarco Gallery along with a number of exhibitions from international partners of the Demarco Foundation.


7x7th Street
Jean Pierre Muller
Belgian neo-pop artist, Jean Pierre Muller’s new show “7 x 7th Street” opens at Summerhall. Legendary musicians Robert Wyatt, Terry Riley, Nile Rodgers, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan, Mulatu Astatke and Kassin join with Muller to create a stunning visual and audio mix that combines layers of their diverse history collaged with new and original audio compositions.
Somewhere between the two spheres of truth and storytelling lives an environment full of energy that is home to seven of Muller’s mystical shrines will be displayed outside in the street.


Art & Language
Art & Language was the foremost conceptual art grouping of the 60s and the 70s. Formed at Coventry School of Art in 1968, the group took on an international flavour with Joseph Kosuth, James Collins and other American conceptual artists contributing to the activities of the collective both in exhibition and in a series of highly philosophical publications which remain influential today.
This exhibition will display two large works from 1973 (as well as other items relating to the group’s famous ‘Index’ installations) and a significant display of bookworks and ephemera from this heroic period of linguistic conceptualism.
Most of the works are originally from the archive of David Rushton who was a key member of the grouping until 1975 and we are also pleased to be exhibiting a major work by founder member of Art & Language, David Bainbridge, entitled ‘M1' as well as additional contributions by Paul Wood.


Fewer Laws, More Examples
Ian Hamilton Finlay and The French Revolution
Most exhibitions of the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay concentrate on his interest in the Scottish landscape and his concept of the pastoral or his love of maritime imagery. The poet was also fascinated with the emotions and principles arising from the French Revolution: a period of not only great principle and virtue but also of fear and the fervent of Robespierre’s Terror. In particular Finlay often liked to quote Saint Juste – “Fewer laws, more examples”. Using prints and object multiples from the Richard Demarco archive and the Heart Fine Art archive Finlay’s response to this turbulent history is considered.


Figure Studies & Slow Dancing
David Michalek
In a newly commissioned work, David Michalek returns to Summerhall to pay homage to the cinematic and photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. Using clever “trip-wire techniques” Muybridge was the first person to photograph movement too fast for the human eye to see. He also experimented with moving images made up of single shots taken by similar methods. Michalek has recreated many of Muybridge’s original experiments using the latest technical facilities: this being the contemporary artist’s homage to the original pioneer as well as an extension of Muybridge’s original artistic intent. Moreover, David Michalek’s hugely successful and popular film ‘Slow Dancing’ is being reprised by Summerhall – in this three-screen film, a variety of dance forms from ballet to crumping are shown in incredibly detailed high resolution while being slowed down so greatly that the viewer can feel every nuance of movement and style.
‘Shown to universal admiration in 2011, Edinburgh Festival at Summerhall in association with Demarco European Art Foundation.


In Indigo Set
Ally Wallace
A site specific installation by this Glasgow based artist. Utilising re-cycled materials and painted papers, Summerhall’s classical interiors and veterinary history have inspired Wallace’s considered architectural intervention.


OWWO
Only Women Women Only
A frequent debate amongst feminists is whether women should organise sometimes separately from men. In this exhibition only works by women artists will be on display and, in a radical move, ONLY women will be admitted to the exhibition.


Pain Thing
Robert Kuśmirowski
Summerhall will present a major installation by Polish artist Robert Kuśmirowski. Kuśmirowski, who lives and works in Lublin, specialises in transformed spaces, and intensely realised transformations of reality in general, and history in particular. This will be his second solo show in the UK, following the popular Bunker installation at the Curve Gallery at the Barbican (2009). He has also presented solo exhibitions at the Berlin Biennale (Wagon, 2006) and the New Museum, New York (Unacabine, 2008).
Pain Thing is a powerful yet playful installation relating directly to the existing fabric of the former veterinary hospital at Summerhall. Witness an unsuccessful experiment, as it starts to live its own life.
“Powered by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, as part of Polska Arts programme.” www.culture.pl/edinburgh


Phenotype Genotype (PhG)
Heart Fine Art
The first of Summerhall’s permanent galleries will open its doors for the first time at the Festival. Set in an original laboratory setting, Phenotype Genotype (PhG) will show over 400 small, medium and large works by a wide range of diverse artists amidst items rescued from Summerhall’s scientific past. The artworks (all from the Heart Fine Art collection at Summerhall) will illustrate the historical and motive forces that fuelled the international avant garde since 1900 to the present day. From dada and surrealism via the arte povera, conceptual/minimalist and pop art movements to the YBAs (Young British Artists) the motives and practices of some of the world’s most famous artists will be displayed and considered alongside documents from the economic, political and social movements of the day.


Remains To Be Seen
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann is a pioneer in many artistic disciplines. Having consistently challenged concepts of sexuality and gender identity in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation art, video art and, most importantly, performance with key works such as Meat Joy (1964) and Interior Scroll (1975), Schneemann broke new grounds within the Happening and performance fields subverting taboos facing women artists in the 60s and 70s.
Schneemann will install three major video installations at Summerhall during this year’s Festival – ‘Precarious‘ (2009), ‘Devour‘ (2003) and ‘Infinity Kisses – The Movie‘ (2008) as well as displaying a never before exhibited photographic series where she performed ice skating naked in London while holding her cat.
During the first week of the exhibition the artist will also create a major new work in situ on one of the walls of the Summerhall galleries.
On Saturday 4th August at 3pm Schneemann will give a performative lecture entitled “Mysteries of the Iconographies”. This event will be free but entrance will be by ticket only.


Static State
Group Show
Humour is focused upon a gritty social reality in this curated group show displaying the talents of nine of Edinburgh’s most gifted emerging artists. The work of Alex Allan, Matt Barnes, Liam Crichton, Connor Dupré, Kevin Harman, Joel Kaplan, Mark Purves, Liam Richardson and Kenny Watson cannot be said to be dull nor reverential – on the contrary, it is often satirical, ironic and playful. Most importantly, most of them, despite their youthful age, have decent beards adorning their chins – not a statement of rebellion; more simple dislike of shaving.


The Philosopher’s Garden Redux
Robin Gillanders
Ten photographs made in the Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau at Ermenonville north of Paris where Rousseau spent the last years of his life. Each photograph represents one of the ten chapters (or Walks) of Rousseau’s ‘Les Reveries du Promeneneur Solitaire’ (1782). This was the writer’s last book in which he contemplated his life and the major philosophical concerns that had beset him.


The Secret Exhibition
During the Festival, Summerhall will be staging an exhibition of works by a well known British contemporary artist. That exhibition will be hidden in the building in a locked room – only those people who purchase five separate tickets for Festival shows at Summerhall during the Festival will be given the opportunity to view this secret space and its contents (they will be given an agreed 30 minute time slot to visit the show accompanied by a knowledgeable guide).


Venus with Severed Leg
William English
William English’s fascinating photographs of the early days of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s ‘Sex’ shop are on display. Sex was not only the space where The Sex Pistols were created by McLaren: it was the shop where Westwood created many of the punk stylings which quickly influenced all of fashion after 1976 and after which Westwood became Britain’s foremost fashion designer.


Wolf Vostell
The German artist Wolf Vostell was a key figure in the international avant garde. Firstly involving himself in the ‘decollage’ movement of Villegre, Hains and Dufrene which publicly (and illegally) tore commercial wall posters to expose in part the previously pasted posters beneath to create abstract and pop works that many consider to be the original street art movement long before Banksy. Later Vostell became involved in the destruction in art movement (DIA) initiated by Gustav Metzger and mutated his continuing commitment to his art by renaming his works as ‘De/collage’ and founding a journal of the same name: both now stressing the violence inherent in his staged car crashes, train wrecks and encapsulated objects which suddenly found themselves covered in concrete and their function negated. Taken from the Heart Fine Art collection at Summerhall this exhibition considers the entire career of the artist with a particular emphasis on his anti-war ethos and opposition to the Vietnam war and American imperialism of the 70s.

Image: Carolee Schneemann

Summerhall
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
Mon—Sun, 11—9pm (during the Festival)
Free admission

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