well I've got a bit of catching up to do here.. seeing as the link has only just arrived ..hah.
As the Arts correspondent I have been to tons.. starting off on:
5th August
with Alexander Haim at the DoggerFisher Gallery with his exhibition called Doves, which highlighted a film of a couple of verminous pigeons scuttling around under the tables of a street cafe. Angie and Cara joined me for this and the next few.
Next to Richard Wilson at the Grey Gallery (actually an empty garage off Barony St). This featured a sculpture portraying a crushed hot dog van.. being dusted while we were there: just spent ages looking for it and can't find it. A brilliant video and photographs of a the artist escaping a taxi by cutting his way out of the rear..with an angle grinder.
The Roberto Gonzalez Fernando at the Open Eye Gallery.. who had done a series of paintings of green bottles each with a small piece of paper with a message written on it. Paintings were beautifully executed, and the title of the painting was the content of the message, which took away the mystery.. shame
and then to the Bourne Gallery to see the Emily Young. Angie, Cara and I did not impress the gallery staff as potential buyers, they did not even look up, forget about standing. Beautiful statues carved in very precious pieces of special stone.. I found them cold, classical and exorbitantly expensive.
6th August.. Pittenweem Arts Festival .. a brilliant day out ..in the rain.. with Angie.. a reallly good suggestion. My favourite painting of the day is the picture above, there were lots and lots of pictures of sailing boats in small harbours and masses of other paintings.. the ones with bright colours seemed to be selling bes on such a dreich day.
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