Guide 30 July— 30 August 2015 edinburghartfestival.com # EAF2015 Welcome to our twelfth edition Keep in touch The youngest of Edinburgh’s summer edinburghartfestival.com festivals, we have grown to become the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art, dedicated to sharing ambitious presentations #EAF2015 of Scottish, UK and international artists, contemporary and historic. This year’s programme continues to bring you an unrivalled offering of exhibitions, commissions and specially programmed events, with work by over one hundred artists from Scotland, the UK and beyond presented at more than thirty venues across the city. The festival has always celebrated artists at all stages of their careers, and we are particularly pleased to be launching this year a new initiative to support artists at an early stage in their careers. Platform: 2015 is the first in an annual exhibition dedicated to showcasing new talent at the heart of the festival. With venues across the length and breadth of Edinburgh, the festival invites you to explore our extraordinary city, not least through our programme of publicly sited edinburghartfestival.com projects. This year’s commissions programme, titled The Improbable City, takes inspiration from Italo Calvino’s famous catalogue of imaginary cities, to explore artists who conjure fictional worlds in their work. # EAF2015 Supported by the Scottish Government Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund Each year, the festival commissions a new artist to create a bespoke map of Edinburgh to help you find your way round. This year’s design has been created by illustrator Robbie Porter. Find out more at robbieporter.co.uk Partners Pop-Up Exhibitions & Events 1 City Art Centre 32 City Art Centre 2 Collective 33 CodeBase 3 Dovecot Gallery 34 Dance Base 4 ECA 35 GARAGE 5 ECA Tent Gallery 36 H M General Register House 6 ECA at RBS 37 Old College, 7 Edinburgh Printmakers University of Edinburgh 8 Edinburgh Printmakers 38 Scottish Book Trust Castle Mill Works 39 South Gallery 9 Edinburgh Sculpture 40 St Andrew’s Square Workshop 41 St Anthony’s Chapel Ruins 10 Ingleby Gallery 42 St Patrick’s Church 11 Inverleith House 12 Jupiter Artland Permanent Commissions 13 National Museum of Scotland 43 Calton Road, The Regent Bridge 14 Open Eye Gallery 44 Old Saint Paul’s 15 Rhubaba Episcopal Church 16 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 45 Scotsman Steps 46 Scottish National Gallery 17 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two 18 Scottish National Portrait Gallery 19 Stills 20 Talbot Rice Gallery 21 The Fruitmarket Gallery 22 The Number Shop 23 The Queen’s Gallery 24 The Scottish Gallery Commissions Programme 25 Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk 26 Gladstone’s Land 27 Old Royal High School 28 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One 29 St. James Centre 30 Trinity Apse 31 Waverley Railway Station Getting around Pricing & booking Merchandise Guide contents Edinburgh is extremely Unless otherwise stated, This year, the festival has Commissions Programme Partner Exhibitions walkable as a city. To help you exhibitions and events are collaborated with artists find your way around, as well free to attend. Where there including Charles Avery and 6 The Improbable City 26 City Art Centre as the map provided, visitors is a charge, full prices and Hanna Tuulikki to create an 7 Charles Avery 27 Collective may wish to download the free concessions are listed; exclusive series of products 8 Marvin Gaye Chetwynd 28 Dovecot Gallery Transport for Edinburgh app tickets should be purchased and prints to purchase. 9 Julie Favreau 29 Edinburgh College of Art: Tent Gallery which provides up to date from the relevant venue. These, in addition to the 10 Emma Finn 30 Edinburgh College of Art information on buses and For full event listings, design range by Glasgow- 11 Ariel Guzik 30 Edinburgh College of Art: RBS trams, available for iPhone pick up a weekly guide based designer David 12 Kemang Wa Lehulere 31 Edinburgh Printmakers users on the Apple store, and from the Kiosk during the Galletly and limited editions 13 Hanna Tuulikki 32 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Android users on Google Play. festival, or visit by previously commissioned 33 The Fruitmarket Gallery For more information and edinburghartfestival.com artists Craig Coulthard, Susan 34 Ingleby Gallery transport advice, visit Philipsz and Jacqueline Platform: 2015 35 Inverleith House edinburghfestivalcity.com Donachie, will be on sale 36 Jupiter Artland at the festival Kiosk, our 15 Antonia Bañados 38 National Museum of Scotland dedicated gallery and shop 15 Ben Callaghan 39 The Number Shop on Blair Street and also at 16 Ross Hamilton Frew 40 Open Eye Gallery select venues across the city. 16 Jessica Ramm 41 The Queen’s Gallery 42 Rhubaba 43 The Scottish Gallery Permanent Commissions 44 Scottish National Gallery 45 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 46 Scottish National Portrait Gallery 18 Callum Innes 47 Stills 18 Martin Creed 48 Talbot Rice Gallery 18 Richard Wright 18 Alison Watt Pop-Up Exhibitons & Events Activities & Events Pop-Up Exhibitions 50 Believe 20 Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk 50 Dennis and Debbie Club: The Strip 20 Guided Tours 51 The Skinny Showcase 21 Tourist in Residence 51 Travelling Gallery Eyes on the Prize 21 Artist Talks 22 Art Late Events 22 Festival Detours 52 GARAGE 23 Film Club 52 Contemporary Pilgrimage: 23 Family and children’s programme: The Way to Venice Explorers 53 Sarah Hardie: songs for someone who isn’t there 53 Trace 54 David Sherry: Avoiding Answer 54 Joan of Arc 603 55 The Telfer Gallery This Is Not A City Commissions Programme We support Scottish and international artists to make new and ambitious projects which engage with the extraordinary context of Edinburgh in August. Presented principally in public spaces, our commissions allow access to overlooked or neglected parts of our city’s heritage. #EAFcommissions 6 The Improbable City The Improbable City 7 Charles Avery The Improbable City Tree no.5 (from the Jadindagadendar) Commissioned with Parasol Unit 30 July—30 August Untitled (Study of pool for The Jadindagadendar), 2014 pencil, ink, acrylic, and gouache on paper, mounted on linen 171cm x 125 cm Courtesy of the artist, and GRIMM gallery, Amsterdam SING SIGN: a close duet, work in progress drawing/visual score by Hanna Tuulikki, 2015 Courtesy of the artist Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities takes the form of an imagined conversation between Marco Polo and the Kublai Khan, in which the famous explorer describes to the world-weary emperor a succession of fantastical cities he has Charles Avery’s The Islanders is an evolving lifelong project, dedicated to visited on his travels. As it dawns on the Khan that the cities Polo describes describing the inhabitants, flora and fauna of a fictional island. In a constantly are almost certainly entirely imaginary, Polo acknowledges the struggle which growing body of work (drawing, sculpture and film), Avery explores and lies at the heart of his model, his need to balance ‘exceptions, exclusions, records in precise detail the customs, myths, religions and rituals of the incongruities, contradictions’ with the probable, to avoid achieving ‘cities too islanders. At the heart of the island is Onomatopoeia, once a bustling port probable to be real’. and boomtown, now in a state of extended decline. Onomatopoeia’s municipal The Improbable City brings together the work of seven artists, each park is called the Jadindagadendar, and is filled, not with living botanical of whom, in very different ways, offer an encounter with worlds or spaces specimens, but with artificial trees, flowers and shrubs, an expression of the at the limits of the probable; spaces which, like Polo’s imaginary cities, find islanders’ refutation of nature. their reality precisely through embracing the incongruous and contradictory. For The Improbable City, Avery will realize a tree from the Jadindagadendar. Worlds which are distinctly ‘other’, yet sit in close relation to our own; isolated, Standing almost 5 metres in height, the tree draws on mathematical patterns self-contained, but also, crucially, permeable. such as the Fibonacci sequence for its form. Part plant, part sculpture, part Situated principally in public spaces, the commissions find a suitably temple, Avery’s tree sits within our world and outside it, offering a meeting improbable context in Edinburgh, a city once described by Robert Louis point, or a place for momentary escape and contemplation. Stevenson as a ‘dream in living masonry’, and which once a year, gives over its Avery views these objects almost as souvenirs or specimens, brought back entirety to an intense exploration of the ‘other’ in all its forms. to our world by a visitor to the Island. Situated in Waverley Station — the only Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Ariel Guzik and Hanna Tuulikki will be station in the world to be called after a novel (Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley) — performing live on specific dates during the festival. Avery’s tree finds a suitably fictional home. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festival’s Expo Fund, Event Scotland and With additional support from Baillie Gifford Investment Managers and Edinburgh World Heritage. British Council Scotland. For full times and details, visit edinburghartfestival.com 31 Waverley Railway Station Mon—Sun, 10am—6pm #EAFimprobablecity Concourse, by Platform 2, EH1 1BB 8 The Improbable City The Improbable City 9 Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Julie Favreau The King Must Die She century 30 July—30 August Commissioned with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 30 July—30 August Marvin Gaye frise, 2015, Chetwynd, inkjet print, Home Made Tasers, 12 x 18’’ Studio 231, Courtesy of the New Museum, artist and Battat New York, Contemporary 2011—2012 Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ Working across performance, sculpture, installation and painting, Marvin Julie Favreau’s film installations transport us to intensely private worlds, Gaye Chetwynd draws on a disparate array of cultural reference points peopled by enigmatic figures often engaged in highly charged encounters with (high-brow and popular, historic and contemporary) to construct her peculiar objects.