Edinburgh has its reputation for mystery and for witchcraft. The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art celebrates this with an exhibition which, as the Guardian puts it, “prove that images of sorcery and satanic sex never go out of fashion”. Go beyond the subject and this exhibition assembles works by a remarkable number of well-known artists showing how the human soul is troubled by the unknown and the mysterious.
Ian Caldwell
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
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