The Edinburgh Reporter December 2021

18 WHAT’S ON
CULTURE • LITERATURE • EVENTS • MUSIC • MUSEUMS...
New arrivals
Landmark exhibition spanning 110 years at Modern One
Top right, Marc
Chagall, L’Écuyère
Dali’s 1938 Lobster
Telephone, above
Far Left, France-Lise
McGurn’s Bachelorette
Left, Damien Hirst’s
Wretched War
Right, collage by
Wangechi Mutu
A NEW EXHIBITION at Modern One will run until
spring 2023, and will show off the gallery’s acquisitions
over the last five years. Some of these have been made
possible by bequests and gifts by supporters. Others
have come to the gallery through the Arts Council’s
Acceptance-in-Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes, which
enabled the acquisition of Damien Hirst’s life-size
bronze sculpture Wretched War (2004); the first portrait
Oskar Kokoschka painted in Britain after arriving as a
refugee in 1939, and a remarkable set of 21 monotypes
by the great Russian Constructivist artist Naum Gabo.
Along with a Picasso, there are other works by
contemporary artists and new exhibits will be
introduced during the run of this important display
which will take up the entire ground floor.
Highlights of the exhibition will include striking and
vibrant woodcuts by Alberta Whittle, who will
represent Scotland at the 59th International Venice
Biennale; a large-scale diptych by France-Lise McGurn,
the Glasgow-based artist renowned for paintings
comprised of intuitive brushstrokes, and a painting by
the acclaimed Scottish painter and printmaker, Barbara
Rae, CBE RA RSA RE.
New Arrivals: From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville
27 November 2021 – Spring 2023.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One),
75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR
0131 624 6200 / nationalgalleries.org
Admission free, but advance booking recommended
#OurNewArrivals
‘A New
Language’
Exhibition at
Fruitmarket
Gallery
Howardena Pindell’s first
solo exhibition in a public
organisation in the UK
HOWARDENA PINDELL: A NEW
LANGUAGE is the artist’s first solo
institutional exhibition in the UK and
the second exhibition to take place in
the new Fruitmarket. It will run until
May 2022.
The artist has had a six decade long
career and showing her multifaceted
talents, some of her writings are
included in the exhibitor along with
works on paper, video and a
publication with her writing sitting
alongside newly commissioned essays
about her art.
Fiona Bradley, Director,
Fruitmarket, said: “It is exciting to be
able to bring an extensive selection of
Pindell’s work to the UK for the first
time, and to present her way of
thinking, art making and writing to
our audience. Working with
Howardena, looking at her work, and
reading her writing has been inspiring
and enlightening for me, and I cannot
wait to share her vision more widely”.
The exhibition is being staged in
collaboration with Kettle's Yard in
Cambridge and Spike Island in Bristol
and will tour to both of these galleries
in 2022.
Andrew Nairne, Director, Kettle’s
Yard, said: “We are delighted to be able
to work with Fruitmarket and Spike
Island to present the remarkable work
of Howardena Pindell at Kettle’s Yard.”
Robert Leckie, Director, Spike
Island, said: “For the last six decades,
Pindell’s fiercely experimental
approach to art-making has tested the
formal boundaries of art as much as
the structural inequities of the field. I
am thrilled that this collaboration
between Spike Island, Fruitmarket and
Kettle’s Yard will enable her potent
work and ideas to become more widely
known throughout the UK.”
Howardena Pindell: A New Language
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, until 2 May
2022. Open 7 days.
Gallery spaces 11am–6pm
Bookshop and Café 10am–6pm
www.fruitmarket.co.uk