Amalia Pica
Colour in paperwork (A3), 2016
£120
A limited edition risograph print by Amalia Pica, exclusive to House of Voltaire.
Edition Size
80
Dimensions
42 x 30 cm
Finishing
Risograph Print
Amalia Pica, Strangers 2008-2011. Paper bunting and performers. Courtesy the artist and Herald St. London. Photo ©Polly Branden
About The Artwork
Amalia Pica is known for her installations and sculptural works which explore communication and realms of civic participation. This new edition continues her 2015-16 series 'Joy in Paperwork', in which the artist created images using bureaucratic stamps she has collected from around the world. The artist then repeats and repurposes the stamps to create new patterns. Playing with otherwise official, administrative symbols, Pica subverts and makes light of the various bureaucratic systems they stand for. In ‘Colour in paperwork (A3’), 2016, Pica creates an arched trail of ‘Paid’ stamps which starts and ends off the page. Similarly to other works in the series, the repeated stamps follow a system of the artist’s own, and each repeated stamp serves a larger pattern.
About Amalia Pica
Amalia Pica (b.1978, Argentina) lives and works in London. Pica’s work encompasses sculpture, performance, installation, drawing and printmaking. The artist’s practice explores systems and modes of communication, often probing the link between form and politics. Above all, Pica’s work has a playful quality which often appears to subvert the symbols and systems she incorporates.
Pica has held numerous solo exhibitions both in the UK and internationally including Brighton CCA, Brighton, UK; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, US; Fondazione, Rome, Italy; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland; Herald St, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US, Phosphorus, São Paulo, Brazil; Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany; La Criée Centre d’art Contemporain, Rennes, France; Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK.
Pica is represented by Herald St, London and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.