Friday, April 08, 2005
Elegant explosions in Edinburgh
This sounds great - a daytime 'firework' display by Simon Patterson, as part of his exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
"Free Public Art Event JUST CONFIRMED: Simon Patterson’s Landskip, 2005
Saturday 16 April,1.45pm. Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
In a spectacular and elegant sequence of timed explosions, British contemporary artist Simon Patterson detonates a series of coloured smoke grenades at strategic points on Calton Hill on Saturday 16 April 2005 from 1.45pm. The public artwork, entitled Landskip 2005, is to be staged near the National Monument - Scotland’s unfinished memorial to casualties in the Napoleonic Wars - and will be documented by Patterson in a series of photographs.
The event is a re-creation of Patterson’s public artwork, Landskip, 2000, which was staged in the grounds of Compton Verney House, Warwickshire, and inspired by its landscaped gardens historically used as a secret British Army location for smoke screen tests.
The main entrance to the event is at Waterloo Place. Families and picnic-goers are welcome and stewards will be on hand to assist the public. The event, which will proceed in wet weather, will end at approximately 3pm. Spectators are advised not to bring vehicles to the site.
Admission to the event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from The Fruitmarket Gallery bookshop until Friday 15 April or on-site on the day. T: 0131 225 2383. E-mail: bookshop@fruitmarket.co.uk
Says Patterson: ‘I wanted to create a daytime firework display in much the same way that artists were commissioned in the 17th and 18th centuries to design spectacles, including mock battles and fireworks displays, for their patrons’.
Landskip, 2005 has been realised with the generous support of the British Territorial Army, Tayforth Universities Officers Training Corps. It is staged on the occasion of Simon Patterson’s exhibition, High Noon, at The Fruitmarket Gallery until Sunday 1 May."
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This sounds great - a daytime 'firework' display by Simon Patterson, as part of his exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
"Free Public Art Event JUST CONFIRMED: Simon Patterson’s Landskip, 2005
Saturday 16 April,1.45pm. Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
In a spectacular and elegant sequence of timed explosions, British contemporary artist Simon Patterson detonates a series of coloured smoke grenades at strategic points on Calton Hill on Saturday 16 April 2005 from 1.45pm. The public artwork, entitled Landskip 2005, is to be staged near the National Monument - Scotland’s unfinished memorial to casualties in the Napoleonic Wars - and will be documented by Patterson in a series of photographs.
The event is a re-creation of Patterson’s public artwork, Landskip, 2000, which was staged in the grounds of Compton Verney House, Warwickshire, and inspired by its landscaped gardens historically used as a secret British Army location for smoke screen tests.
The main entrance to the event is at Waterloo Place. Families and picnic-goers are welcome and stewards will be on hand to assist the public. The event, which will proceed in wet weather, will end at approximately 3pm. Spectators are advised not to bring vehicles to the site.
Admission to the event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from The Fruitmarket Gallery bookshop until Friday 15 April or on-site on the day. T: 0131 225 2383. E-mail: bookshop@fruitmarket.co.uk
Says Patterson: ‘I wanted to create a daytime firework display in much the same way that artists were commissioned in the 17th and 18th centuries to design spectacles, including mock battles and fireworks displays, for their patrons’.
Landskip, 2005 has been realised with the generous support of the British Territorial Army, Tayforth Universities Officers Training Corps. It is staged on the occasion of Simon Patterson’s exhibition, High Noon, at The Fruitmarket Gallery until Sunday 1 May."
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