Scotland + Venice is delighted to announce full details of Karla Black’s solo presentation at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, the world’s largest and most prestigious showcase for contemporary visual arts. The exhibition is curated by The Fruitmarket Gallery and is presented, as in 2009, at Palazzo Pisani (S. Marina).

In this exhibition Black presents forms and compositions in Vaseline and marble dust, sugar paper and eye-shadow, soil, powder paint and plaster, polythene, cellophane and soap, in crumbling, peeling washes or dustings of high key mid-colours like peach, baby blue and pastel pink. Black describes these works as being “caught between thoughtless gestures and seriously obsessive attempts at beauty”.