Edinburgh’s new Art Festival uncovered
JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2003
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Line manager l-lo Ping, age 21, stands amid the rows of machinists, running up hems and seams of the clothes that come to us neatly, Made in China. Strip lighting and desks disappear behind into perfect perspective. Polly Breden’s photographs of young girls’ lives at a dress-making factory in China where employeesliveonsiteln'speclallydesignedflatsand learn songs aspertottheirtralnhgarelustsomeotthe
winning photography on show. I Stills Gallery. until Sun 19 Sep, free.
Susanna Beaumont is the founder of doggerfisher and used to edit this here section. An old hand at the Festival, she picks out her top choices from the world of art and beyond.
Mike Nelson‘s The Pumpkin Palace does not offer easygomg escat);srtt but an cxtraomlrnan, encounter with another untorlr'l lt's a 19:34 transit bus which you can climb aboard and enter a place you have probably not even imagined. Hauntingly brilliant.
And wrthrn a stone‘s throx. ol this is Cecil Beaton's luscious but highly chOreogranhed photographs; Fred Tomaselli's r'eSrn-trozen collages and in mernOrral chapel to the Great \r‘t.’ar. Alison Watts painted folds of fabric.
I am not one fer' a standrup corr‘edran but ml! to; and to catch some dance. probably Rambert and the new piece by Akram Khan. Macbeth at the Gateway and Strauss opera Capr'coo about the nexer wear, themes of love and longing. And also books and trlnts and sauce/e rn a few erOntaneOLis OLlibLl’SIS of 'let's see rf there are an, tickets left .' scenarios and GTTJO,’ the extended opening hours of the ct, 's oars to talk and nonder .v‘nere all the hair brarders and itiggler's go to after the Retinal.
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ilit FESTIVAL ART
‘Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses' — Max Aitken
I The Age of Titian Scotland's nobility were canny collectors — their wares and pieces from the National Gallery's permanent collection are brought together in lavish symphony for an orchestra of flesh. Delicious. Royal Scottish Academy Building, The Mound. 225 667 7, until Sun 5 Dec, Mon-Sat 7 0am—5pm; Sun noon—5pm, £7 (£55).
I The Pumpkin Palace Turner-nominee Mike Nelson has transformed a 1954 Green Tortoise bus into a space of electric tension; political art at its finest. Part of the Collective oft-site programme. See review. 6 Market Street, next to the City Art Centre, until Sun 72 Sep. Tue — Sun, 7 7 am — 6pm, free.
I Fred Tomaselli Ruffling a few of the establishment feathers. this New York-based artist incorporates drugs and transcendence into his dazzling collage paintings. both literally and metaphorically. Visceral and fantastical — see it they work for you. The Fru/tmarket, Market Street, 225 2383, until Sun 37 Oct, 70am—7pm, free.
I Robert Therrien Fe. ii, to, turn, I smell the blood of a strange. brilliant Californian. Beard sculptures, giant tables and chairs, big oil cans, piles of scrubbing brushes and subtle drawings create disorientation on many scales. See review. lnver/eith House, Royal Botanic Garden, until Sun 37 Oct, daily 70am—5.30pm, free.
I Alison Watt The Edinburgh-based painter who shot mercurially from Glasgow School of Art in the late-eighties is showing no sign of slowing down. This new work reveals tenacious dedication to the evocative representations of fabric — solemn and sensual. See review. lng/eby Gallery, until Sat 77 Sep; Still, Old St Paul '3 Church, Jeffrey Street, until Sat 25 Sep.
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