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13/12/2012

Julian Wild / Amalia Pica

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford

AMALIA PICA
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14 December - 10 February 2013

Playful and celebratory, Pica’s sculpture and works on paper – many of which will be shown in the UK for the first time - explore some of the underlying social concerns that relate to our daily experience of life. Examining the nature of participation and interaction between people, her works have a vitality and hand-made quality, which often belie more complex social relations, in particular the importance of communication and the interaction between individuals.
Alongside work from the past six years this exhibition presents a newly commissioned sculpture, which takes the form of a plinth bearing the oxide traces of the sculpture it once supported. Pica's plinth is as much about the object itself as it is a suggestion of an absent counterpart.

This exhibition continues a conversation, which began with Pica's first solo UK exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, earlier this year. Included is her large-scale work Strangers on Common Land, 2012, shows two strangers standing in an open landscape, connected by the line of bunting that they hold and the common land on which they stand; a metaphor for the possibility of coming together through cultural celebration.

Also featured is Pica's series of sculptures Catachresis, 2011-2012 that denote something for which there is no other name (catachresis), such as the leg of a table or the elbow of a pipe.

Pica’s profile continues to rise both in the UK and internationally. In recent years she has exhibited across Europe and America most notably at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), the New Museum Triennial, New York(2012) and as New Generation Art Prize nominated artist.

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JULIAN WILD
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14 - 30 December 2012

The China Shop presents Making the Connection, a communal sculpture project by Julian Wild. Making the Connection invites audiences to contribute to the construction of a large-scale sculpture using low tech, everyday materials. Made from over 300 metres of plastic plumber’s tubing and elbow joints, visitors are encouraged to add to a free flowing drawing that explores the Project Space at Modern Art Oxford. Making the Connection is as much about the activity of making as the outcome. Its form is completely dependent on people’s contribution to it. Alongside the sculpture, Julian Wild presents a time lapse film of Making the Connection filmed at Bold Tendencies, London, 2012. This exhibition was organised in collaboration with The China Shop.

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Image: © Amalia Pica
Catachresis #18 (legs of the table, neck of the bottle, head of the screw), 2012.
Photography: Sander Tiedema

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For further information or images please contact
Kayleigh Hellin on +44 (0)1865 813826 or email kayleigh.hellin@modernartoxford.org.uk

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