Giacomo Picca
dal 6/4/2005 al 24/4/2005
Segnalato da
6/4/2005
Giacomo Picca
August Art, London
Installed Landscapes. The artist present an intriguing and playful response to debates in contemporary painting, treading the ground between painting as a space of fiction and the factuality of its reality. In the new paintings, landscape operate as an agent for the search of ‘idealism'
Installed Landscapes
Giacomo Picca’s work present an intriguing and playful response to debates in contemporary painting, treading the ground between painting as a space of fiction and the factuality of its reality.
Continuing the artists’ interest in landscape painting, the attention focuses onto the various procedures employed in the meticulous construction since the very beginning. In the new paintings, landscape operate as an agent for the search of ‘idealism’ in an over flooded world in which reality is mediated through images. Landscape becomes a signifier for the attempts to find, once, moments of transcendence, in the very means for mediation of information such as the internet, magazines and art books. The images were thus encountered by chance, and re-done following the artists’ language that blends DIY and painterly methodologies, hence hybridising the violence of the power tool with the sensual pleasure of paint.
With the absence of any centre to organise the developments of contemporary painting we are left with ‘play’. Picca’s work exercises the constraints and freedoms of this condition. Importing the generic archetypes of landscape painting – tree, mountain, and horizon – with an index of painterly marks and formal strategies, the paintings continually operate on the margins of abstraction, design and decoration, while never straying too far from the empirical limits of the object. As always in Picca’s work, there is a cared and balanced composition creating a dialogue with the economy of means employed to make the work, each painting becoming rich in its simplicity.
Giacomo Picca, a Brazilian-born and London-based artist, studied Engineering at the São Paulo Institute of Engineering, Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design, Wimbledon School of Art and finally completing his MA at Goldsmiths College in 2000. Picca has exhibited widely throughout the UK, Spain and Germany. He had a solo show ‘Geografias’ in Madrid and ‘Trees for the Wood’ in London. Last year he curated the shows: ‘draw_drawing_’ and ‘cosy universe_2004’. This year, he has been commissioned a Public Art Project called ‘Arts Trail’ to work in the area of North Kensington in London.
Giacomo Picca :
Born in São Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works in London
Education:
2000 – 1998 MA in visual arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1998 – 1995 BA, Wimbledon School of Art
1994 – 1993 Chelsea College of Art & Design
1985 – 1980 São Paulo Institute of Engineering
Solo Exhibitions:
2005 - ''Installed Landscape'',August Art, London
2003 – ''Trees for the Wood'', Gallery 32, London
2002 – ''Geografias'', Galleria Perro Verde, Madrid
Commision:
2005 – Art Trail, Public Art Project, Tabernacle Trust
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2005 – ''Uneven Surfaces'', Temporary Contemporary, cur. Jen Wen & Anthony Gross, London
2004 – ''A.A.A.B.A.M.'', collaboration with Calum F. Kerr, Berlim
2004 – ''Cosy Universe'', 142 Project, cur. Giacomo Picca, London
2004 - ''Uguanda'', Tabernacle, collaboration with Marssares, cur. Frauke Ehmke, London
2004 - ''Short term contract'', collaboration with film maker John Sealey, London
2004 - ''draw_drawing_'', Gallery 32, London
2004 - ''Turkish Bath'', Sonar São Paulo, collaboration with Tetine. São Paulo
2004 - ''E=mc2'', Institute of Physics, cur. Jill Rock, London
2004 - ''So Change Frequency'', collaboration with film maker Pablo Ross. London
2004 - ''Artivists'' / ''Cling Film'', Peckham Library, cur. by Claudia Wegener and Michael Asbury, London
2004 - ''Brazil 40 degrees'', InsideSpace at Selfridges, London
2004 - ''Ciclovia Aérea'', Museu de Arte da Pampulha, video collaboration with Jarbas Lopes, BH, Brazil
2003 - ''Ciclovia Aérea'', Centro Wilfredo Lam, video collaboration with Jarbas Lopes, Havana, Cuba
2003 - ''Souvenir'', Transition Gallery, London
2003 - ''Nth Art Exhibit 001'', OLS&Co, London
2003 - ''Superman'', John Hansard Gallery, collaboration with Foreign Investment, Southampton
2003 - ''The dead’s dog story'', The Oval Theatre, collaboration with Ducha, London
2003 - ''Walking in Berlin'', Changing Channels
Curatorial Projects:
2004 – ''CU - Cosy Universe 2004'', 142 Lea Bridge Road, London
2004 - ''draw_drawing'', Gallery 32, London Biennale 2004, London
2002 – '' A Bridge'', Oriel Gallery, Ffwrrwm Art Centre, Carleon, Wales
1999 - ''Cool'' – Rockinham Space, London
1997 - ''Out'' –Wimbledon Gallery, London, cur. Richard Wentworth
Info artist: http://www.giacomopicca.com
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