The Works of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Multi-Cache
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The Works of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
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A tour of Edinburgh sculptor and artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s works.
This is a multi-cache covering quite a lot of distance and you may want to set extra time aside if you wish to explore the galleries and museum fully, though this is not required to find the cache. Please bring your own pen or pencil.
ACESSIBILITY. All of the locations and the cache are fully wheelchair accesible. One of the creators of this cache is a wheelchair user and the cache was no problem.
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, KBE, RA (7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist who gained international recognition and was regarded as the father of British pop art.
The cache begins at the top of Leith Walk not far from Albert St where the young Paolozzi was born and raised. Paolozzi’s mother and father were Italian immigrants who owned a small ice cream shop also retailing sweets and cigarettes. At this time cigarette packets included cigarette cards and customers buying the packets would often give the cards to Eduardo who collected them and was fascinated by their imagery finding them a source of inspiration for his entire life. Some of the Italian immigrants in Leith owned chip shops and Paolozzi would occasionally work cutting chips and filleting fish for his father’s friends. He saved the money he earned and bought small mechanical motors which would drive the cogs of his imagination influencing his later creations. The cinema was his mother’s treat and from a young age he frequented the small local picture houses.
The stylish myriad images of the cigarette cards, austere mechanised engines, and the fantasy and quick cut stories of the silver screen films can be seen in many of Paolozzi’s sculptures, some of which you will see on this cache.
The Manuscript of Monte Cassino N55 57.381 W003 11.240
A hand, a section of limb and a foot, located at the top of Leith Walk, looking towards Paolozzi's birthplace Leith.
The foot has a date 199A.
The hand holds a large object between 2 fingers, for answer B what shape is the object?
Square=1 pyramid=2 sphere=3 rectangle=4
National Museum of Scotland N55 56.826 W003 11.452
Opening hours Daily 10-5 Admission free
The coordinates are for the closest entrance to the clue. Once inside take the elevator or stairs to level -1 and the Early People Gallery. Once there find the large bronze figures sculpted by Paolozzi for the museum. How many large figures are there? C
Edinburgh College of Art N55 56.743 W003 11.937
Paolozzi studied art here in 1943. The campus has expanded since his day but the red sandstone building was where he would have attended. How many large columns are there at the building entrance? D
St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral N55 56.908 W003 12.955
The stained glass windows at these coordinates were designed by Paolozzi on the theme of Ascension and are even more striking when viewed from inside. The three long windows and the above group are all Paolozzi's, how many large windows inside the outer circle of 12 windows are there? E
Modern Two N55 57.103 W003 13.445
Opening hours 10-5 daily. Entrance to the clue locations is free even if a ticketed exhibition is on.
Accessibility: lift entrance in back of building, buzz intercom to get in then take lift on immediate right.
At the entrance to the cafe 'Vulcan' can be seen. Vulcan was the Roman god of fire and the blacksmith who forged weapons for the gods and heroes. He was lame, which is the reason he is aided by a support here. Half-man and half-machine - this is a monument to the modern age.
For answer F which hand is Vulcan holding his hammer?
His right=2 His left=4
Down the Hall is a reconstruction of Paolozzi's studio. Above the fire place how many round windows are there? G
Master Of The Universe N55 57.078 W003 13.494
This work is based on a famous drawing by William Blake, which shows the scientist Isaac Newton. Paolozzi used the same pose as in the Blake drawing, but has mechanised the figure. The sculpture was made by cutting up and reassembling a plaster model, as the artist frequently does in his later work. What is the date at the base of the sculpture 19H9?
The Cache
You should now have the answers to questions A-H.
The cache is a magnetic nano located at N55 57.(A+B-4)(C-6)(D-2) W003 13.(E+1)(F+G-3)(H-2)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fznyy cvcr, xarr uvtu, znva ebnq.
Oevat cra.
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