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Richard Demarco, CBE (born in Edinburgh, 1930) is a Scottish artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts. ==Richard Demarco Gallery== Demarco was a co-founder of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1963. Three years later he and other organisers of the theatre's gallery space left the Traverse to establish what became the Richard Demarco Gallery.〔("Focus on Demarco" )〕 The gallery, which doubled as a performance venue during the Edinburgh Fringe, ran from 1966 to 1992.〔Senay Boztas, (''Demarco to get a gallery for his 75th'' ), ''The Sunday Herald'', 6 March 2005.〕 For many years, the Demarco Gallery promoted cultural links with Eastern Europe, both in terms of presenting artists such as Paul Neagu from 1969, Marina Abramović from 1973 and Neue Slowenische Kunst from 1986 within Scotland, organising exhibitions of contemporary Polish, Romanian and Yugoslav art and in establishing outgoing connections for Scottish artists across Europe. Richard Demarco's involvement with the artist Joseph Beuys led to various presentations, from ''Strategy Get Arts''〔Palermo Restore, (''Strategy: Get Arts'' ), ''Edinburgh College of Art''.〕 in 1970 to Beuys' hunger strike during the ''Jimmy Boyle Days'' in 1980. Also particularly notable were the presentations by Tadeusz Kantor's ''Cricot 2'' group during the 1970s and 1980s, including a celebrated unofficial performance of ''The Water Hen'' at the former Edinburgh poorhouse during the 1972 Edinburgh Festival.〔(''The Top 20 ...Scottish theatre events of all time'' ), ''The Scotsman'', 13 March 2007.〕 ''Cricot 2'' returned to Edinburgh in later years. Demarco introduced Beuys and Kantor to one another and in one performance of ''Lovelies and Dowdies'' Beuys performed under Kantor's direction. For many years, after the Scottish Arts Council withdrew its annual grant in 1980 following controversy associated with Joseph Beuys' support for Jimmy Boyle, the Demarco Gallery led a financially straitened existence. Since the early 1990s, Richard Demarco's activity has continued under the auspices of the ''Demarco European Art Foundation''. In November 2008 a substantial selection from Demarco's archives, covering the period 1963–1980, was made available on-line by the University of Dundee (below for direct link to online archive ). Images of Demarco's activities during this period, in particular collaborations with Joseph Beuys, Tadeusz Kantor, Paul Neagu and Marina Abramović are available in the selection from the Demarco archives. Detailed documentation of the Edinburgh Arts journeys from 1972 to 1980 are also available in this selection. Demarco has presented several thousand art exhibitions, plays, music, conferences, and various other performances, mainly in Edinburgh, involving artists from at least sixty countries, including all of central and eastern Europe during the Cold War, North and South America, all countries of western Europe, Australasia, and from Southern Africa, Middle East, and other parts of Asia. Exhibitions and festival programmes were also organised by him and his Demarco European Arts Foundation in other countries including Poland, Lithuania, Croatia, Bosnia, Malta, Georgia, Hungary, Italy to name but a few. His 'Edinburgh Arts' journeys criss-crossed all of Europe, taking artists and academics from other countries alongside those of Scotland to visit interesting people, great collections, cities, landscapes, and events, to examine Europe's cultural history of the past 5,000 years. It is for his consistent internationalism that he was being successfully nominated as European Citizen of the Year 2013. This also followed from his exhibition "Scotland in Europe: Europe in Scotland" in Brussels in 2011. His own artworks were included in the Italian pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale. In 2013 Demarco organised an Italo-Scottish pavilion at the Venice Biennale, his fourth pavilion there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Demarco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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