Chambers Street
0131 247 4422

21 July 2006 –
7 Jan 2007
Mon – Sun
10am – 5pm
Admission Free

Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck’s work became world-famous when a poignant sculpture of his dead father’s small, naked body caused shockwaves in the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition in 1997. The attention to detail and sheer technical brilliance of his figures are incredible, but it is Mueck’s use of scale that takes your breath away.

His work is lifelike but not lifesize, and being face to face with the tiny, gossiping Two Women (2005) or the monumental woman In Bed (2005) is an unforgettable experience. It’s like nothing Edinburgh’s ever seen before – see it before you hear about it.

Supported by Dunard Fund
Media partner The List

Also showing: The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer
(1578 – 1610): Devil in the Detail
23 June – 3 Sept
Adult £6 Conc £6

Adam Elsheimer is one of the unsung heroes in the history of European art.  His small but exquisite paintings on copper have an unmistakable richness of detail and invention.  Elsheimer, unjustifiably little know today, was recognized in his own time as a genius.  He transformed – narrative, landscape and the depiction of interiors – and he played a crucial part in the formation of Rubens and Rembrandt.

Born in Germany, but working mainly in Italy, Elshiemer died aged just 32 and only about 35 of his pictures survive.  British audiences now have a rare chance to discover this forgotten master, in a show that brings together almost all of these fragile works together – possibly for the last time.

Supported by Baillie Gifford, The Bacher Trust and The Lynn Foundation

www.nationalgalleries.org/mueck
www.nationalgalleries.org/elsheimer