Ellen Gallagher
dal 10/12/2004 al 13/2/2004
Segnalato da
10/12/2004
Ellen Gallagher
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Orbus. The show has been selected in close collaboration with the artist to demonstrate the full range of her practice. Huge paintings, an 11m long wall drawing, intimately-scaled 16mm film projections and an extraordinary sequence of drawings hand-carved into watercolour paper
The drawings' of American artist Ellen Gallagher that extend to vast
paintings up to five metres wide, animated film projections and intricate
scalpel-cut and laser-burnt drawings  plus an 11-metre-long impermanent
wall drawing - are the subject of the artist's first major solo exhibition
in the United Kingdom opening Saturday 11 December at The Fruitmarket
Gallery.
An acclaimed highlight of the 2003 Venice Biennale, Gallagher's work has
gained wide international acclaim since the mid-1990s through its
confrontation of issues surrounding racial identity. Her work explores forms
of alienation, repression and transformation within a constantly evolving
and unique pictorial vocabulary that has become a mark of her practice.
Orbus features one of the works for which Gallagher is best known - a vast
'Yellow Painting' five metres wide by 2.5metres high entitled Double
Natural, 2002. This work consists of nearly 400 advertisements for black
beauty products from vintage magazines such as Ebony and Black Stars
reworked with materials such as yellow plasticine and Tipex.
''The exhibition has been selected in close collaboration with the artist to
demonstrate for the first time in the United Kingdom the extraordinary range
of her practice,'' said Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery
and recent recipient of the 2004 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Art Award.
Ellen is a major international talent who blends visual histories with her
own personal and extremely seductive new cultural mythologies'.
Ellen Gallagher will be conducting an Artist's Talk in conversation with
curator and writer Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith on Saturday 11 December at 2pm
in the Gallery. Admission to this event is free.
Orbus is supported by the Mondriaan Foundation. The Fruitmarket Gallery is a
public-funded, not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity (Charity
No. SC 005576) supported by the Scottish Arts Council.
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street Edinburgh
Admission is free
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