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The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery at Ingleby Gallery
Science has made leaps of progress since man’s first steps on the Moon, but for most of us, space remains a near-abstract concept, mysterious and intangible. This exhibition at Edinburgh’s newly relocated Ingleby Gallery explores how artists have considered the cosmos in their work, mixing together some fascinating historical pieces with first-rate contemporary art by the likes of Cornelia Parker, Garry Fabian Miller and Katie Paterson. Extraordinary photographs taken by astronauts on the Apollo missions and Georges Méliès’s classic 1902 film Le voyage voyage dansd ans la lu ne la Lune are exhibited are exhibited side-by-sides idebywi th side an with ian an hamilton ian hamilton fin lay neon fin lay and neon a wonderfuland Susan image D erg es’ soft he night wonderful sky seen image through of the a night web of sky queen seen through anne’ s lace a web by of susan Queen Anne’ sd er ges.l ace. best Best of all of are all a are handful a handful of of semi-abstract paintings by the late Antiguan artist Frank Walter: childlike depictions of hurtling meteors and colliding astral belts evoke the terrifying terrifying wonder of wonder the void of beyond the void the beyond earth’ s the atmosphere. earth’ s atmosphere. prices range prices from range £500 to from£50,000.£500 to £50,000.
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