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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
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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
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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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/
(.(.( Goshka Macuga
(../../2012/macuga/)
Bouroullec
(../../2012/bouroullec/)
Jimmy Robert
(../../2012/robert/)
Skyscraper
(../../2012/skyscraper/)
Confusion
(../../2012/confusion/)
Le Parloir
(../../2012/parloir/)
Moving Picture
(../../2012/moving-
picture-show/)
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Rashid Johnson
(../../2012/johnson/)
This Will Have Been
(../../2012/this-will-have-
been/)
MCA Signage
(../../2012/mca-signage/)
Chicago Works
(../../2011/chicago-
works/)
Language of Less
(../../2011/language-of-
less/)
Eiko and Koma
(../../2011/eiko-koma/)
MCA Stage
(../../2011/mca-stage/)
MCA Stencil Prints
(../../2011/mca-riso/)
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Section 1
(../../2011/read-it-and-
weep/)
Color Ting
(../../2011/color-ting/)
We Are Here
(../../2011/we-are-here/)
Mark Bradford
(../../2011/bradford/)
Jim Nutt
(../../2011/nutt/)
Robin Hood Gdns
(../../2010/robin-hood-
gardens/)
Moir Workshop
(../../2010/moire-
workshop/)
MMXI
(../../2010/mmxi/)
Horizonville
(../../2010/horizonville/)
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Bless My Homeland
(../../2010/bless-my-
homeland/)
ArnhemChicago
(../../2010/arnhem-
chicago/)
Tutti a Tavola
(../../2010/tutti-a-tavola/)
Design as (Design)
(../../2010/design-as-art/)
John Baldessari
(../../2009/baldessari/)
Public Space
(../../2009/public-space/)
Sound Escapes RHG Exhibition Vitamin 3-D NZ at Venice
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(../../2009/sound-
escapes/)
(../../2009/rhg-
exhibition/)
(../../2009/vitamin-3-d/) (../../2009/nz-venice/)
Gas T-shirts
(../../2009/gas/)
Tate St Ives
(../../2009/tate-st-ives/)