Amalia Pica

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(.(.(Project: Exhibition catalogue

Publisher: MCA Chicago, Artbook | DAP

Format: 203.2 254 mm (8 10 in)

112 pages with foldout sections



Radius-cut board cover with foil-blocked buckram spine, yellow transparent

PVC dust jacket

Curators: Joo Ribas (MIT List), Julie Rodrigues Widholm (MCA Chicago)

Director of Publications: Kate Steinmann

Editors: Lisa Meyerowitz, Molly Zimmerman-Feeley

Designers: James Goggin, Scott Reinhard

Printing: Die Keure, Bruges

Amalia Pica accompanies the London-based Argentinian artists first major solo

museum exhibition in the United States, curated by Joo Ribas (MIT List Visual

Arts Center (http://listart.mit.edu/node/946#.UVMMbL9yQqZ)) and Julie

Rodrigues Widholm (MCA Chicago

(http://mcachicago.org/exhibitions/next/all/304)). The catalogue provides an in-

depth look at the last ten years of the artists work, exploring recurring themes

of metaphor, communication, and civic participation through drawings,

sculptures, large-scale photographic prints, slide projections, live performances

and installations. Using simple materials such as photocopies, lightbulbs,

drinking glasses, beer bottles, bunting and cardboard, Pica creates work that is

both formally beautiful and conceptually rigorous. The publications design

makes subtle references to both ideas and materials: the result of a close

collaborative dialogue with Pica during the design and editorial process.

A deceptively simple assembly mixes standard US-style radius-corner

composition book

(http://www.theofficedealer.com/mm5/graphics/product_images/1300/seo/MeadWestvaco-

09932-Square-Deal-Composition-Book.jpg) board covers and buckram tape

spine with French Clairefontaine

(http://www.officeshopping.co.uk/images/product_images/732108.jpg) coloured

notebook paper. The transparent PVC dust jacket refers both to the use of

coloured gels and documentation of coloured light in Picas work, and, loosely



yet deliberately, to her anthropomorphically-phrased Catachresis

(http://contextindependent.com/2013/01/15/consumption-and-destruction-this-

toy-tank-isnt-all-fun/) works (a jacket for the books body to wear).



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