Edinburgh Art Festival Launches
39- Day Art Extravaganza Unveiled
The Edinburgh Art Festival took centre stage yesterday as it announced an exciting summer season line-up. The programme, the festival’s 7th, will run from the 29th July until the 5th September 2010. 48 galleries are showing in the citywide programme and 11 are set to feature for the first time.
Expected highlights include 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright’s new work, which will be unveiled on the 30th June 2010; and Staged, by Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth. Martin Creed's work, Down Over Up will also be exhibiting at The Fruitmarket Gallery ahead of the unveiling of a new work later this year.
For fans of the greats, the National Galleries of Scotland will be presenting three major exhibitions: at the Dean Gallery, Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists takes a comprehensive look at Surrealist art, while the National Gallery Complex on The Mound will showcase a range of pieces around the theme Impressionist Gardens- a major international exhibition of around 100 works, and the first ever devoted to this subject Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light is the largest exhibition of paintings to have been seen outside of Denmark and What you see is where you’re at: Part 3 opens at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Gilbert & George ARTIST ROOMS display collection.
Festival Director Joanne Brown had the following to say about the Festival line-up:
“The seventh annual Art Festival showcases the strength and diversity of the visual arts in Edinburgh ensuring a platform during the summer Festival period for this vibrant part of the city’s cultural life. For the 2010 EAF we welcome 11 new galleries many of them showcasing work by an emerging generation of artists,” she said.
“Recognising that space is at a premium during the summer, this year we have also been able to support Scottish visual artists, curators and galleries to show their work outwith the gallery context. The four Expo supported interventions range from a late night parade to a mobile gallery selling affordable art. The interventions complement our on-going programme of events and the ever popular ART LATE which this year will be on Thursday 26 August.”
For more information and the full programme of events, please visit the Art festival website.
