It has always been about the overlap between form and politics for me. I believe I need to occupy my own place in the world while taking responsibility for the way I do this, I have chosen to be an artist-this was not imposed upon me-and so I understand form to be my concern. I try to stay in the realm of the visual and the sensible as a means of defending that space itself, a space constantly open to redefinition-one in which subjectivity can be played out. This is why self-reflexivity can be important. To me it is a political stance. If one could say that art is concerned with the imagination, I believe that how imagination is formed is a pertinent question that also speaks to society in a larger sense. The ways we imagine and how we are conditioned to imagine are both artistic and political concerns to me.
Traducido del inglés
Para mí, siempre ha sido acerca de la superposición de la forma y la política. Creo que tengo que ocupar mi propio lugar en el mundo mientras me responsabilizo de la forma en la que lo hago. He elegido ser una artista—esto no fue impuesto sobre mí—así que entiendo la forma como interés. Intento permanecer en el ámbito de lo visual y lo sensible como modo de defender ese espacio, un espacio constantemente abierto a las redefiniciones, en el cual la subjetividad puede ser representada. Es por esto que la auto-reflexión puede ser importante. Es para mí una postura política. Si uno pudiera decir que el arte está interesado en la imaginación, creo que la manera en la que se forma la imaginación es también una pregunta pertinente que tiene que ver con la sociedad en un amplio sentido. Las formas en las que imaginaos y cómo estamos condicionados a imaginar son preocupaciones artísticas y políticas para mí.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 2005: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
- 2003: Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2003: Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P.P. (I.U.N.A.), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2001-2003: Clínica de Obra con Tulio de Sagastizabal.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2011: Recipient of the Cisneros Fontanals Foundationʼs Grants & Commissions Program.
- 2011: Winner of Art Rotterdam, Illy Prize.
- 2007: Ayudas 07, Spain, C.C. Montehermoso.
- 2007: Certamen, Spain, Explum.
- 2005: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands.
- 2004: Madrid Abierto, Spain, Mention of the Jury.
- 2004: UNESCO-Aschberg, Germany.
- 2004: Bursaries for Artists programme Fundación Antorchas, Argentina.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013: “Low Visibility”, Johann König, Berlin, Germany.
- 2013: Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2013: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA.
- 2013: List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- 2012: Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK.
- 2012: “Amalia Pica – On paper”, Basis, Frankfurt.
- 2012: “For Shower Singers”, Modern Art Oxford, GB.
- 2012: “Chronic Listeners”, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
- 2011: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- 2011: “Endymion’s Journey”, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Group Exhibitions
- 2013: “Emmy Moore’s Journal”, Salts, Basel, Switzerland.
- 2013: “The Future Generation Art Prize“, Venice 2013, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy.
- 2013: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA.
- 2013: “Silence, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, USA.
- 2013: “When Attitudes Became Form Became Attitudes”, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI, USA.
- 2013: “Version Control”, Arnolfini, Bristol, GB.
- 2013: “Ruins in Reverse”, Tate Modern, London, UK.
- 2012: “Common Ground”, Public Art Fund, New York, USA.
Publications
- Amalia Pica. Edited by Joao Ribas, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicag.
- Jacob Proctor: Amalia Pica. In: Artform, January 2013, p. 81.
- Amalia Pica in the studio with Charlotte Bonham-Carter. In: Art in America, June/July 2012, pp. 150-157.
- Amalia Pica. Edited by Malmö Konsthall, 2011.
Links
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- Amalia Pica, “Untitled (tiles), 2006, Beer coasters, Variable dimensions. Installation view Modern Art Oxford, GB, 2012
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- Amalia Pica, “Untitled (tiles), 2006, Beer coasters, Variable dimensions. Installation view Modern Art Oxford, GB, 2012
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- Amalia Pica, “Eavesdropping”, 2011, Glasses, glue, 198 x 731.5 x 20.3 cm, Unique (large version), Installation view New Museum, New York, 2011. Photo credit: Benoit Pailley
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- Amalia Pica, “Some of that colour #4”, 2011, Paper flags, drained paper, flag dye on watercolor paper, chair, 200 x 400 x 150 cm. Image courtesy of Marc Foxx
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- Amalia Pica, “Stage (as seen on Afghan Star)”, 2011, Cardboard, tape, spotlight, motion sensor, lighting gel, 25.4 x 279.4 x 279.4 cm
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- Amalia Pica, “Stage (as seen on Afghan Star)”, 2011, Cardboard, tape, spotlight, motion sensor, lighting gel, 25.4 x 279.4 x 279.4 cm
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- Amalia Pica, “Venn Diagrams (under the spotlight)”, 2011, Spotlight on tripod, motion sensor, lighting gel, graphite on wall, Variable dimensions, Installation view List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Amalia Pica, “Venn Diagrams (under the spotlight)”, 2011, Spotlight on tripod, motion sensor, lighting gel, graphite on wall, Variable dimensions, Installation view List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Amalia Pica, “Stabile (with confetti)”, 2012, Paper and transparent adhesive tape, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Gunnar Meier
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- Amalia Pica, “A intersection B intersection C”, 2013, Variable dimensions, Installation view and performance shot: Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Amalia Pica, “Catachresis # 41 (eye of the needle, head of the nail, teeth of the comb)”, 2013, Found materials, 34 x 27 x 187 cm, Unique. Photo credit: Roman März. Image courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin
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- Amalia Pica, “Catachresis # 44 (legs of the chairs)”, 2013, Found materials, 64 x 44 x 55 cm, Unique. Photo credit: Roman März. Image courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin
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- Amalia Pica, “Playing solo and indoors (mechanical jump rope)”, 2013, Steel, motor, rope, 207 x 126 x 600 cm, Unique. Photo credit: Roman März. Image courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin
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- Amalia Pica, “Reconfiguration #1”, 2013, Installation with gerahmten collages ( frame, paper, glue), frames each 39,5 x 29,5 x 4 cm, overall 150 x 950 x 4 cm. Unique. Photo credit: Roman März. Image courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin
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- Amalia Pica, “Shutter telegraph (as seen on TV)”, 2013, Wood, screws, iron, white paint, 242.5 x 135.2 x 139.2 cm. Unique. Photo credit: Roman März. Image courtesy of the artist and Johann König, Berlin
