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Daniel Gottin

27 May 2010 at 6pm

This month we will be visiting Sleeper to see the work of Switzerland-based artist Daniel Gottin. For the past twenty years, Gottin has focused on making temporary, site-specific interventions that examine the subjective nature of perception. His installations, always consisting of common industrial materials, such as tape, carpet, and paint, playfully respond to the specific characteristics of an architectural site and activate the viewers relationship to it.

Gottin has made the work in direct response to Sleeper’s one-room exhibition space, which is located in the basement of the offices of Reiach and Hall Architects. Sleeper was founded in 2000 by visual artist Alan Johnston and architect Neil Gillespie, to bring together a rich diversity of national and international art and as a way to continue a dialogue between contemporary art and architecture. Previous artists have included Bruce Nauman, Lesley Foxcrot, Charles Avery, Douglas Gordon, Alan Charlton, Martina Klein, Adam Barker-Mill, Thomas A Clark and Roger Ackling.

We will have the pleasure of the company of Neil Gillespie, Director of Reiach and Hall Architects, who will join us in discussions about the influence of contemporary art on their architecture and about their collaborations with the artists.

Neil Gillespie’s architectural projects include The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness which was winner of the 2007 RIAS Doolan Building of the Year Scotland Award; the competition design for Dunfermline Museum and Art Gallery; and the Beatson Institute, University of Glasgow. Gillespie is also a tutor at the Architecture Department of Edinburgh College of Art.

Karla Black

21 January 2009 at 6.30pm

A discussion of Karla Black’s solo exhibition at Mary Mary with Spin host Alhena Katsof and gallerist Hannah Robinson.

Karla Black describes her works as, almost painting, performance or installation while actually, and quite definitely, being sculpture. Her fragile, yet authoritative, sculptures are caught between thoughtless gesture and an obsessive attempt at beauty. They are both compromises and protests at the same time. Black’s works seem to have been made by themselves and then hover unsupported in the ether: pure raw material, colour and sensation. For her first solo exhibition at Mary Mary since 2006, Black will spend six days working on-site to produce a group of sculptures made from materials such as body moisturising creams, chalk dust, cotton wool, sellotape, vaseline, paint and egg shells.

Karla Black was born in Alexandria, Scotland in 1972. She currently lives and works in Glasgow where she completed an MFA in 2004, a Master of Philosophy in 2000 and a BA (Hons) Fine Art in 1999, all at the Glasgow School of Art. Karla has exhibited extensively throughout Scotland, the UK and internationally. Recent exhibitions include solos at West London Projects, London; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and group exhibitions Wollust-the presence of absence, Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig; Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain, London (all 2008). Forthcoming projects include solo exhibitions at Migros Museum, Zurich; Modern Art Oxford and Inverleith House, Edinburgh and group shows at Kunstverein Freiburg and Kunsthalle Andratz (all 2009).