Amalia Pica
14 Dec 2012 - 10 Feb 2013
© Amalia Pica
Catachresis #18 (legs of the table, neck of the bottle, head of the screw), 2012.
Photography: Sander Tiedema
Catachresis #18 (legs of the table, neck of the bottle, head of the screw), 2012.
Photography: Sander Tiedema
AMALIA PICA
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14 December - 10 February 2013
Playful and celebratory, Pica’s sculpture and works on paper – many of which will be shown in the UK for the first time - explore some of the underlying social concerns that relate to our daily experience of life. Examining the nature of participation and interaction between people, her works have a vitality and hand-made quality, which often belie more complex social relations, in particular the importance of communication and the interaction between individuals.
Alongside work from the past six years this exhibition presents a newly commissioned sculpture, which takes the form of a plinth bearing the oxide traces of the sculpture it once supported. Pica's plinth is as much about the object itself as it is a suggestion of an absent counterpart.
This exhibition continues a conversation, which began with Pica's first solo UK exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, earlier this year. Included is her large-scale work Strangers on Common Land, 2012, shows two strangers standing in an open landscape, connected by the line of bunting that they hold and the common land on which they stand; a metaphor for the possibility of coming together through cultural celebration.
Also featured is Pica's series of sculptures Catachresis, 2011-2012 that denote something for which there is no other name (catachresis), such as the leg of a table or the elbow of a pipe.
Pica’s profile continues to rise both in the UK and internationally. In recent years she has exhibited across Europe and America most notably at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), the New Museum Triennial, New York(2012) and as New Generation Art Prize nominated artist.
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14 December - 10 February 2013
Playful and celebratory, Pica’s sculpture and works on paper – many of which will be shown in the UK for the first time - explore some of the underlying social concerns that relate to our daily experience of life. Examining the nature of participation and interaction between people, her works have a vitality and hand-made quality, which often belie more complex social relations, in particular the importance of communication and the interaction between individuals.
Alongside work from the past six years this exhibition presents a newly commissioned sculpture, which takes the form of a plinth bearing the oxide traces of the sculpture it once supported. Pica's plinth is as much about the object itself as it is a suggestion of an absent counterpart.
This exhibition continues a conversation, which began with Pica's first solo UK exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, earlier this year. Included is her large-scale work Strangers on Common Land, 2012, shows two strangers standing in an open landscape, connected by the line of bunting that they hold and the common land on which they stand; a metaphor for the possibility of coming together through cultural celebration.
Also featured is Pica's series of sculptures Catachresis, 2011-2012 that denote something for which there is no other name (catachresis), such as the leg of a table or the elbow of a pipe.
Pica’s profile continues to rise both in the UK and internationally. In recent years she has exhibited across Europe and America most notably at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), the New Museum Triennial, New York(2012) and as New Generation Art Prize nominated artist.