Visual Art
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Dundee-born artist
David Batchelor's installation in the
palm house at the Royal Botanic Gardens sets
the sticky city night on fire with 500 plastic domestic bottles. The chandelier-like structure entitled 'Candela 7/450 (For the Death Star)‘ is over six metres in length; an illuminated necklace of acid pinks. lime greens and tangerine oranges.
Very strange fruit indeed.
Kim Coleman from The Embassy spills the beans on the gallery’s art festival show, Not Yet Night, which is part of the Annuale.
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‘Believe it or not. I can actually draw.’ Jean-Michel Basquiat
* Moyna Flannigan - Well, Well
A parade of n'ionstrous Pierrot and Pierrette's rendered in paint and conte crayon. Flannigan's ‘vanitas' canvases explore the tragic-comic state of being alive. figures are depicted in awkward positions and are dragged about the surface of the painting wrth Violent gusto. See review. page 85.
Doggerfisher; Edinburgh, until 30 Sep. Free.
* Tracey Moflat — Adventures
An exhibition of super kitsch high gloss images taking TV melodrama as there subject matter. Moffat's photograpl’is deconstruct the stereotypes we are all forced to negotiate. and also shows films that appropriate and reconfigures little snippets of rubbish films. See revrew. page 86. Stills. Edinburgh, until 29 Oct. Free
* Thread
This group show brings together a wide variety of artists who examine the relationship between sculpture and installation, taking their cues from minimalism's so called ‘theatricality’. The artists exhibiting include Alexander Calder, Cornelia Parker, Glasgow duo Smith/Stewart, and some recent works by Carl Andre. See review. page 86.
lng/eby Gallery. Edinburgh, until 9 Sep. Free.
* Andrew Mackenzie - Delicate Ground
Layers of painted trees create a textured surface that somehow manages to trap time in their branches. Mackenzie manages to create images that grow in the gap between the natural and the ‘man made'. with branches becoming electricity pylons. See review. page 86. Amber Roome, Edinburgh, until 7 Sep. Free.
For venue addresses see index page 96
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