The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is home to Scotland’s outstanding national collection of modern and contemporary art.
The Gallery is set in extensive parkland, where visitors can discover sculpture works by important artists like Ian Hamilton Finlay, Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread and Barbara Hepworth. The lawn to the front of the Gallery of Modern Art was re-landscaped in 2002 to a design by Charles Jencks. This dramatic work, or ‘landform’, comprises a stepped, serpentine mound reflected in three crescent-shaped pools of water.
The collection of the Gallery of Modern Art ranges from the 1900s right up to the present day. Highlights include works by Vuillard, Bonnard, Matisse, Picasso, Kirchner and Dix; a superb selection of paintings by Scottish artists such as Peploe, Fergusson, Gillies and Redpath; postwar work by Bacon, Freud, Davie, Hockney, Balthus and Lege, and more recent work by artists including Baselitz, Antony Gormley and Damian Hirst. There are also special exhibitions and works from the Gallery’s internationally renowned Dada and Surrealist collection alongside pieces by Eduardo Paolozzi, including a full recreation of the artist’s studio.
The Gallery also features fantastic shops and cafés.
Admission: free entry apart from special exhibitions
Part of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Current and forthcoming exhibitions:
Tony Cragg
30 July – 6 November 2011
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
£7 / £5
Tony Cragg’s first museum show in Britain for more than a decade, this exhibition features around fifty major sculptures, some of which are on a monumental scale and are sited in the Gallery’s grounds. Born in Liverpool in 1949, Cragg studied art in London in the 1970s and moved to Germany in 1977. He has brought an investigative, intuitive approach to sculpture, using an extraordinary range of materials. He came to prominence in the late 1970s for works composed of brightly coloured plastic objects, but since the mid-1980s has worked extensively in other materials such as bronze, glass, stainless steel and wood. Focusing mainly on Cragg’s work from the past fifteen years, this exhibition offers visitors the chance to see work by one of the world's most renowned sculptors.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
4 August – 18 September 2011
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
£7 / £5
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Edinburgh International Festival are delighted to announce a major new exhibition of the renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Featuring 26 large-scale works from two of Sugimoto’s most recent series, Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawings, the show consists entirely of work shown for the first time in Europe. Lightning Fields is a series of dramatic photographs produced through the play of violent electrical discharges on photographic film. The Photogenic Drawings series was inspired by the innovative techniques of the 19th century photographer, Henry Fox Talbot. This revelatory exhibition offers the chance to experience first hand Sugimoto’s exploration of the very nature of photography.
Opening Hours
Open daily 1000 - 1700, 1800 during August
Contact
Enquiries
73/75 Belford Road
Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh
EH4 3DR
Scotland
Tel: +44 (131) 6246200
Tel: +44 (131) 332 2266
Fax: +44 (131) 5569972
E-Mail: info@nationalgalleries.org
WWW: http://www.nationalgalleries.org
