Karla Black
dal 15/10/2014 al 7/11/2014
Segnalato da
15/10/2014
Karla Black
Modern Art, London
New sculptures made from materials including cellophane, paper, sellotape, and paint. She produces a cosmogony of expanded works, light and transparent ones, suspended from the ceiling, or coloured accumulations of powder.
Modern Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Karla Black. This is the artist’s second solo show with Modern Art.
Karla Black’s exhibition is comprised of sculptures made from materials including cellophane, paper, sellotape, and paint.
Karla Black (b. 1972) lives and works in Glasgow. She attended Glasgow School of Art 1995-2000 and 2002-2004, completing BA (Hons), MPhil, and MFA degrees. In 2011, Black represented Scotland at the 54th Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Turner Prize. Karla Black has recently made solo exhibitions at institutions including Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2013); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2013); Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands (2013); Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA (2012); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany (2012); Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2012); Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany (2010); Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2009); Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2009); and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (2009).
Her works remind of some kind of performance and while they seem impermanent and formless, they are striving to keep their aesthetic intact 'forever' in some or various ways.
The artist rethinks the expressive gesture and plays with the different features of materials. In this way, she produces a cosmogony of expanded works, light and transparent ones, suspended from the ceiling, or coloured accumulations of powder and paper thickening on the floor.
Image: Concentration 55, Dallas Museum of Art, (installation view) TX, USA, October 19 2012 - March 27 2013
Private View: Thursday 16 October, 6-8pm
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