The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh
ROBERT POWELL Between The Lost Places 20 July – 3 September 2018
The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh presents
ROBERT POWELL Between The Lost Places 20 July – 3 September 2018
Between The Lost Places is part of Edinburgh Art Festival 26 July - 26 August 2018 edinburghartfestival.com @EdArtFest #EdArtFest
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I Bound for Other Isolations 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of ten etching and watercolour | 20.5 x 9.5 cm
II Cities of the Plain
or Five Styles of Utopia 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of five lithograph and watercolour | 71 x 50 cm
III City of Vitrines 2018; signed and dated 18 acrylic | 30 x 40 cm
IV Enoch
or The Genius Loci of a City with Too Much Memory 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six etching and watercolour | 60 x 48 cm
V Family Tree 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of seven lithograph and watercolour | 36 x 50 cm
VI Grand Tour 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of one lithograph and watercolour | 25 x 21 cm
VII A History of Leaves
or Andromache in Epirus 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six lithograph and watercolour | 50 x 25.5 cm
VIII Knight Errant 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of one lithograph and watercolour | 25 x 15 cm
IX Myriorama Scroll: A Theatre of Exile
2018; lithograph and digital print; edition of ten each card measures 12.5 x 6 cm; 75 cards total
X Obverse Mundi 2018; signed and titled mixed media | 10 x 10 cm
XI Odysseus:
A Wandering Eye 2018; signed and titled gouache and lithograph | 24 x 18 cm
XII Ovid Among the Scythians 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of one monoprint, lithograph and gouache | 30 x 25 cm
XIII The Pale King
or Diogenes Reassembles a Wise Man 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of ten etching and watercolour | 12.5 x 10 cm
XIV Penelope:
the Chair that Eats Me 2018; signed and titled gouache and lithograph | 24 x 18 cm
XV The Poetics of Departure 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of ten etching and watercolour | 8.5 x 27 cm
XVI Topomachy:
Being a Furious Discourse on the Interpretation of Space 2018; signed and numbered; edition of six lithograph etching, monotype and watercolour | 28 x 38 cm
XVII The Talosiad or The Autonika:
the iEpic Peregrinations of an Android 2018; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six giclĂŠe print | 40.5 x 88 cm
XVIII The Talosiad or the Mechanical Egg, Where the Satellite Navigation Guides the iEpic Peregrinations of a Heroic Android 2018; signed and titled mixed media | 85 x 26 cm
XIX The Alabaster Chamber or The Tomb of Hector,
resplendent in moving, clanking pneumatic creatures. The Necrotic Workshop where dead matter is made to live, where ivory, leather, ebony and gems coalsce to form the Fair Galatea or Coppelia, whose breath is via bellows and whose gears and pumps emit a sweet whisper 2017; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six etching and watercolour | 30 x 30 cm
XX At Dusk We Use the Serinette to Teach the Birds to Sing
or The Twilight Chorus in the Mechanical Menagerie, the Automatic Aviary, the Clockwork Zoo 2017; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six etching and watercolour | 30 x 30 cm
XXI Autoperipatetic School or Classes of Movement
2017; signed, titled and numbered; edition of ten etching and watercolour | 8 x 29.5 cm
XXII Brazen Head
or the Sleep of Bacon 2017; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six etching and watercolour | 26 x 26 cm
XXIII The Mechanical Egg
or The Wonderful Clockwork Palace of the Emperor Hugo, in which the Revolutions of the Stars and those of the Earth are Joined in Blissful Sympathy 2017; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six etching and watercolour | 30 x 30 cm
XXIV Nature Artifex
or the Homunculus Factory 2017; signed, titled and numbered; edition of ten etching and watercolour | 8 x 29.5 cm
XXV The Organ Recital or Dissecting the Doll
2017; signed, titled and numbered; edition of six etching and watercolour | 30 x 30 cm
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Published by The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh for the exhibition
ROBERT POWELL Between The Lost Places 20 July – 3 September 2018
held at 6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ from 20 July to 3 September 2018 Between The Lost Places is part of Edinburgh Art Festival 26 July - 26 August 2018 edinburghartfestival.com @EdArtFest #EdArtFest Catalogue © The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh Images © The artist; photography of Talosiad by John McKenzie All rights reserved
Front cover: The Talosiad or the Mechanical Egg, no. XVIII Inside front cover: Enoch or The Genius Loci of a City with Too Much Memory, no. IV Left: Topomachy: Being a Furious Discourse on the Interpretation of Space, no. XVI Back cover: House of Leaves or Andromache in Epirus, no. VII
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