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Dense, pastel-coloured and inviting, Karla Black’s new work at Kunstraum Dornbirn is a sight to behold. The Scottish artist has designed a landscape for the former assembly hall that invites visitors to wander, marvel and enjoy. Using everyday materials, some of which are unusual for art, she creates a space-filling combination of material, form and colour, a blissful experience appealing to all the senses.
From the 11-metre-high ceiling hang countless strips of lightly coloured toilet paper throughout the room. Between them are strings from which hang silhouettes of hemispheres moulded in paper or translucent coloured foils, tied together to form wondrous, graceful shapes. The dangling and floating spheres are visually offset by the standing and reclining forms: in the clearings between the toilet paper and the strings, sculptures are placed that poetically combine standing paper and holding plaster moulds. The toilet paper ends on the...More
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Dense, pastel-coloured and inviting, Karla Black’s new work at Kunstraum Dornbirn is a sight to behold. The Scottish artist has designed a landscape for the former assembly hall that invites visitors to wander, marvel and enjoy. Using everyday materials, some of which are unusual for art, she creates a space-filling combination of material, form and colour, a blissful experience appealing to all the senses.
From the 11-metre-high ceiling hang countless strips of lightly coloured toilet paper throughout the room. Between them are strings from which hang silhouettes of hemispheres moulded in paper or translucent coloured foils, tied together to form wondrous, graceful shapes. The dangling and floating spheres are visually offset by the standing and reclining forms: in the clearings between the toilet paper and the strings, sculptures are placed that poetically combine standing paper and holding plaster moulds. The toilet paper ends on the...More
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