Hamish Fulton, Maureen Paley, London
In 1973, after walking over 1,000 miles in 47 days from Duncansby Head to Land’s End, Hamish Fulton made the decision to ‘only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks’. Since then, walking has formed the basis of his practice, materialising in photographs and walk-texts in various forms. His solo exhibition at Maureen Paley exemplifies his ongoing commitment to producing art that serves as a passive protest against urban societies that alienate people from the natural environment.
Until 25 August, www.maureenpaley.com
Yes, surprising is existence in the post-vegetal cosmorama, BALTIC, Gateshead
Heather Phillipson’s new solo exhibition invites visitors into a multi-layered interior of hidden and revealed structures, containing moving images, sounds and machines that are re-coloured, re-sized and inhabited. Portals and enclosures provoke a succession of arrivals, and alongside several new works in the gallery, a new audio-visual walking tour, Cardiovascular Vernacular (as in ‘it’s time for my regular cardiovascular vernacular’), takes visitors beyond the building and into the city.
Until 22 September, www.balticmill.com
Man Ray Portraits, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Presented in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in London, Man Ray Portraits is the first major museum retrospective of the highly influential artist’s photographic portraits and features over 100 works dating from 1916 to 1968. Featuring portraits of lovers, friends and contemporaries, ranging from two of his most significant muses, Lee Miller and Kiki de Montparnasse, to fellow artists, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, the exhibition demonstrates Man Ray’s central position among the leading artists of the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Until 22 September, www.nationalgalleries.org
Aquatopia, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
It occupies seven-tenths of the surface of our planet, yet the depths of our oceans are less known to us than the Solar System. This major exhibition of contemporary and historic art and artefacts explores how the ocean deep has been imagined across cultures and through time. The exhibition reveals how human cultures have projected their sexual desires, their will to power, and their fear of difference and death onto the ocean’s invisible depths. It brings together over 150 contemporary and historic artworks by artists including JMW Turner, Odilon Redon, Hokusai, Barbara Hepworth and Oskar Kokoschka.
Until 22 September, www.nottinghamcontemporary.org
Haris Epaminonda, Modern Art Oxford
This solo exhibition centres on a newly commissioned film, Chapters. Filmed in Cyprus, it is a poetic series of meticulously staged scenes with underlying narrative elements of love, longing, afterlife and ritual. Referencing Renaissance painter Fra Angelico and Georgian film director Sergei Parajanov, the fixed frame of the camera shapes the film as a series of ‘pictures’ capturing remote archaeological sites, ancient buildings and historical detail.
Until 8 September, www.modernartoxford.org.uk
Selection compiled by Jack Hutchinson
