Research Catalog

Title

Karla Black / Herausgegeben von Katharina Dohm

Author

Black, Karla,

Publication

Wien : Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2019.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Dohm, Katharina, 1975-
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.

Description

48 pages : illustrations; 33 cm

Summary

The expansive sculptures by Karla Black are of an ambiguous, fragile beauty. Delicate pastel shades and foils, light and reflections give them a weightless impression despite their large formats. The works move between installation, painting and performance and ultimately claim to be independent sculptures. The Scottish artist works with materials of daily use and cosmetics, with paint, gypsum powder and transparent tape, with Vaseline, lipstick and nail polish. The texture, "feeling", is crucial to the selection. Black installs her site-specific sculptures herself, works with her hands, rubs, smears, mixes. This direct examination of the material is understood as a means of communication and a means of understanding her surrounding world. For the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt the artist developed a new spatial sculpture for the publicly accessible rotunda. Karla Black lives and works in Glasgow. In 2011, she represented Scotland at the 54th Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Turner Prize in the same year. Her work has been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions. Exhibition: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, Germany (25.10.2019 - 19.01.2020)

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Karla Black : conditions
• Works.

Subject

• Black, Karla
• Black, Karla > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of the exhibition "Karla Black: Conditions" at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 25, 2019-January 19, 2020

Language (note)

• Text in German and English

ISBN

• 9783903320338
• 3903320331

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries