Escócia em Veneza

Visual artist Martin Boyce has been selected to represent Scotland at the 2009 Venice Biennale; the world’s largest and most prestigious international showcase for contemporary visual arts.
This will be the fourth Scottish presentation at Venice by the Scottish Arts Council, together with partners the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council in Scotland and is curated for the first time by Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA).
Scotland and Venice 2009 will be the first time a solo presentation has been selected to represent Scotland and the presentation will build on the critical success of previous projects which have promoted artists including Turner Prize winner Simon Starling and current Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes.
Martin Boyce’s work relates to and transforms the space around it creating atmospheric, sculptural art inspired by modernist design history. His work has been shown across the world and is currently exhibited at the prestigious Sculpture Center in New York. An installation ‘Our love is like the earth, the sun, the trees and the birth’, (2002) is on show at the Gallery of Modern Art in his home town of Glasgow.
Boyce will develop work specifically for the presentation in Venice and he has already undertaken a visit to Venice to identify sites and locations together with the DCA curatorial team of Judith Winter, Deputy Director/Head of Arts Programme and Graham Domke, Exhibitions Curator.
Following the Venice presentation the work will return to Scotland in December 2009 to be presented at a special exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts marking its 10th anniversary.
In addition, an exhibition at the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney this autumn offers visitors a flavour of the first three Scottish presentations at Venice with work by Simon Starling (2003) Cathy Wilkes (2005) and Charles Avery (2007).

The exhibition ‘Venice & Scotland – 2003, 2005, 2007’ will be on show at the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney from 20 September to 8 November 2008