Amalia Pica

Amalia Pica (born 1978 in Nequén, Argentina) is a London-based Argentinian artist who explores metaphor, communication, and civic participation through sculptures, installations, photographs, projections, live performances, and drawings.[1]

Early life and education

Amalia Pica was born in Nequén, Argentina, in 1978. She earned a BA from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires in 2003. From 2004 to 2005, she held an artist residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kusten.[2][3]

Influences and Work

Pica was born in the late 1970s during the Dirty War, a period of state terrorism in Argentina. In light of this fact, Pica's work raises questions about the role of government, language and communication, and human connections. Much of her work explores fundamental issues of communication, such as the acts of delivering and receiving messages (verbal or nonverbal) and the various forms these exchanges may take.

Victor Grippo, Cildo Meireles, Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, among others, were the artists that Pica first studied.[4]

A ∩ B ∩ C (2013)

In A ∩ B ∩ C (read as A intersection B intersection C), Amalia Pica uses translucent colored Perspex shapes, with which performers will produce different compositions in front of the audience. The notion of intersection links to the idea of collaboration and community. This artwork is a performative manifestation of Venn diagrams, which were forbidden from being taught in elementary schools during the 1970s, as the concept of intersection and collaboration were seen as potentially subversive by the Argentinian dictatorship.[5][6][7]

Catachresis (2011-12)

Metaphors are also part of Pica's work, as she uses figures of speech to describe things that have no name. "An object that has no name—that, in a way, escapes language—by invoking something entirely unrelated. Hence, we get phrases like ‘leg of the chair’ or ‘neck of the bottle’ which attach human qualities to inanimate things. Objects have a space and a weight, a physical presence that eludes language. You can’t speak an object: you have to speak around it. Metaphors are a way of doing that. In a sense, when we talk about the world, it's always in metaphors." Pica's Catachresis merges distinct and contrasting found materials, such as the leg of a table or the elbow of a pipe, to construct sculptural forms that become new tools of communication and take on identities of their own.[8]

Venn diagrams (under the spotlight) (2011)

Pica's interest in the relationship between text and image is evident in Venn Diagrams (under the Spotlight), which consists of two colored circles of light cast from theater spotlights to form a Venn diagram. The Argentinian government banned this diagram from being taught in classrooms in the 1970s, as it was thought to be an incendiary model of social collaboration. "The two circles of light are nothing but forms until the caption situates them historically, cluing you to their perception as subversive in the context of Argentinian dictatorship in the 1970s. I’m interested in the ideas that we project onto images and objects: how they resist as much as accommodate them."[4][6]

Hora Catedra (2002)

Pica is also fascinated with childhood. Possibly her best-known early work, Hora Catedra, explores the lessons and themes of childhood and how they irrevocably stay with us through adult life. In Hora Catedra, Pica proves how what we internalize during our childhood will accompany us through adult life: most Argentinians believe The House of Tucuman, the site of Argentina's Declaration of Independence, to be yellow, as it is shown in children's books. However, it is actually white. The 2002 site-specific installation bathed the building in a bright yellow light, in reference to the misconception.[9][10][11]

Exhibitions

Amalia Pica's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Venice Bienniale, and the Tate Modern in London. In 2014, her work was included in the group exhibition, Under the Same Sun, presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Her artwork is part of MACBA, and the Guggenheim's collection.[5][6][10][12]

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Date Exhibition Place
2014 A ∩ B ∩ C[13] Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2014 One thing after another[14] La Criée, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
2014 Dessauerstrasse[15] König Galerie, Berlin
2014 Switchboard[16] Mostyn, Wales
2013 Memorial for Intersections[17] Kunsthalle, Lisbon
2013 Low Visibility[18] König Galerie, Berlin
2013 A ∩ B ∩ C[19] Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
2013 Ascendant Artists: Amalia Pica[20] Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2013 Amalia Pica[2] MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
2012 Amalia Pica[21] Chisenhale Gallery, London
2012 On Paper[22] Basis, Frankfurt
2012 For Shower Singers[23] Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2011 Amalia Pica: UMMA Projects[24] University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2011 Endymion's Journey[25] Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

Selected Group Exhibitions

Date Exhibition Place
2015 Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today[26] Museo Jumex, Mexico City (Guggenheim touring)
2015 Material[15] König Galerie, Berlin
2015 Display Show[27] Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, touring to Stroom den Haag, The Hague, NL
2015 Beauty Codes[28] Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
2015 Repetition and Difference[29] The Jewish Museum, New York
2015 Group Exhibition[30] Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Histories II: Works from the Serralves Collection[31] Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2014 The Reluctant Narrator [32] Museu Berardo, Lisbon
2014 Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today[33] Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2013 Audible Forces[34] F-320, New Delhi
2013 The Printed Room: Emmy Moore's Journal[35] Salts, Birsfelden, Switzerland
2013 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes[36] MOCAD Detroit, Michigan
2013 Version Control[37] Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom
2013 Project Space: Ruins in Reverse[38] TATE Modern, London
2012 Chronic Listeners[39] Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
2012 Common Ground[40] Public Art Fund, New York

Recognition and awards

Amalia Pica was awarded a CIFO grant, from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, in 2011.[41] In that same year, her work was part of the ILLUMInazioni project in the Venice Biennale.[3][42] Also in 2011, Pica received the illy Prize—aimed at celebrating the most innovative artist of the international art fair Art Rotterdam—and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, established by one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.[43][44]

In 2013 she was one of the finalists for the Pinchuk Foundation's Future Generation Art Prize.[45]

References

  1. ↑ Chatruc, Celina (2015-05-29). "Amalia Pica: "Me gusta el concepto de intimidad cultural"". La Nación. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  2. 1 2 "Amalia Pica". MIT List Visual Arts Center. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  3. 1 2 "Jóvenes artistas argentinos en el exterior, parte 2: Irene Kopelman y Amalia Pica". #BellasArtes (in Spanish). Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  4. 1 2 "Playing Telephone: An Interview with Amalia Pica - Interviews - Art in America". www.artinamericamagazine.com. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  5. 1 2 "Amalia Pica". www.guggenheim.org.
  6. 1 2 3 "Collection Online | Amalia Pica. A ∩ B ∩ C. 2013 - Guggenheim Museum". www.guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
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  8. ↑ "Amalia Pica - Aesthetica Magazine". www.aestheticamagazine.com. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  9. ↑ "Amalia Pica | bola de nieve". www.boladenieve.org.ar. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  10. 1 2 Sherwin, Skye. "Artist of the week 196: Amalia Pica". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
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  12. ↑ "Amalia Pica: "Me gusta el concepto de intimidad cultural"". www.lanacion.com.ar. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
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  14. ↑ "One Thing After Another - La criée". www.criee.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  15. 1 2 ""MATERIAL" | KÖNIG GALERIE | Dessauerstrasse". König Galerie. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
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  17. ↑ "Amalia Pica : Kunsthalle Lissabon". www.kunsthalle-lissabon.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  18. ↑ ""Low Visibility" | KÖNIG GALERIE | Dessauerstrasse". König Galerie. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  19. ↑ "Museo Tamayo". museotamayo.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  20. ↑ "MCA – Exhibitions: Amalia Pica". mcachicago.org. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  21. ↑ "Archive Past Exhibitions Amalia Pica | Chisenhale Gallery". chisenhale.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  22. ↑ "On paper". basis Frankfurt e.V. production and exhibition platform. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  23. ↑ "Amalia Pica at Modern Art Oxford | Oxford Today". www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  24. ↑ "Amalia Pica: UMMA Projects". Flickr - Photo Sharing!. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  25. ↑ "Marc Foxx - AMALIA PICA". www.marcfoxx.com. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
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  28. ↑ "fondazione giuliani » Beauty Codes (order/disorder/chaos)". www.fondazionegiuliani.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
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  30. ↑ "Marc Foxx - LEONOR ANTUNES, ANNE COLLIER, LUISA LAMBRI, CARTER MULL, ANNETE KELM, AMALIA PICA, MATTHEW RONAY, MAAIKE SCHOOREL, FRANCES STARK, HIROSHI SUGITO, MATEO TANNATT". www.marcfoxx.com. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
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  32. ↑ "The Reluctant Narrator | Museu Berardo". en.museuberardo.pt. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  33. ↑ "Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative - Latin America". www.guggenheim.org. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
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  35. ↑ "Salts Switzerland". www.salts.ch. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  36. ↑ "Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit". www.mocadetroit.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  37. ↑ admin. "Version Control — Arnolfini". www.arnolfini.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  38. ↑ "Project Space: Ruins in Reverse | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  39. ↑ "Archive - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen". www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  40. ↑ "Public Art Fund : Common Ground". www.publicartfund.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  41. ↑ "CIFO Artists". www.cifo.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  42. ↑ "La Biennale di Venezia - Artists". www.labiennale.org. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  43. ↑ "illy Announces 2011 Illy Prize Winners During Art Rotterdam". popsop.com. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  44. ↑ "Amalia Pica | Paul Hamlyn Foundation". artists.phf.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  45. ↑ ""The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013" / PinchukArtCentre". PinchukArtCentre.org. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
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