Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

The Amazing World of MC Escher

27 June – 27 September 2015

MC Escher remains one of the great conundrums of modern art: an artist whose work is part of the fabric of twentieth-century visual culture, and is as instantly recognisable as anything by Salvador Dalí, yet whose name means little to a British audience.  Never affiliated to any group, rarely travelling far from his modest home in the Dutch town of Baarn, and focusing exclusively on graphic art, he was a one-man art movement who created some of the most famous and popular images in modern art, yet he remains a complete enigma.

This exhibition offers the opportunity to rediscover a giant of twentieth-century art, a fabulously imaginative artist of unparalleled technical ability, whose work is familiar from reproductions, but is seldom seen ‘in the flesh’.  The exhibition includes nearly 100 prints and drawings stretching across his whole career, and is drawn in its entirety from the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Netherlands, which holds an almost complete set of Escher’s prints. It is also mounted in collaboration with the Escher in Het Paleis, a museum of Escher’s work which opened in the centre of The Hague in 2002.

Sponsored by Aegon. Supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Mon-Sun, 10am-7pm

Outside August: Mon-Sun, 10am-5pm

£9/£7

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

ARTIST ROOMS Roy Lichtenstein

13 March 2015 – 10 January 2016

This special three-room ARTIST ROOMS exhibition is dedicated to works by renowned American artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). Lichtenstein was one of the most ground-breaking and influential artists of the twentieth century. With integrity to his materials and techniques, and an intellectual rigour and wit, Lichtenstein created visually striking works that continue to provoke questions about how images permeate our lives. This display will bring together a newly assembled group of works by Lichtenstein recently placed on long-term loan to ARTIST ROOMS thanks to the generosity of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

The ARTIST ROOMS collection of modern and contemporary art is jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, and was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008 with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.

Sun—Wed, 10am—6pm, Thu—Sat, 10am—7pm

Outside August: Mon—Sun, 10am—5pm

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Reflections: A series of changing displays of Contemporary Art

14 March 2015 – 10 January 2016

REFLECTIONS is a dynamic and changing series of displays that showcase the work of a diverse range of internationallyrenowned contemporary artists, including newly commissioned work by contemporary artists Michael Fullerton and Julie Favreau. Glasgow-based Fullerton’s recent body of portrait paintings and prints — collectively titled Prussian Blue — explores the artists ongoing interest in beauty, the recording of history, and the relationship between painting and its social and historical meaning.

Sun—Wed, 10am—6pm, Thu—Sat, 10am—7pm

Outside August: Mon—Sun, 10am—5pm