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Exhibition: Amalia Pica
25 May–15 July
Chisenhale Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Amalia Pica, featuring
newly commissioned works across sculpture, photography, installation, and
performance. The exhibition elaborates upon Pica's ongoing interest in the
social act of listening, sites of celebration, and technologies of mass
communication. This exhibition also marks the culmination of Pica's
year-long, off-site project, I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in
Tower of Hamlets, just like a lot of other people
are (2011/12).
Amalia Pica's exhibition is her first
solo exhibition in the UK and is co-produced in partnership with Modern Art
Oxford where a second chapter will be developed for exhibition in December
2012.
Amalia Pica (born 1978, Argentina) lives and works
in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Chronic Listeners,
Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (2012); Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
(2011); C-sale, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden (2010); and Galerie
Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (2010). Pica was one of the participating artists
in ILLUMInations, 54th International Art Exhibition of the
Venice Biennale (2011), and The Ungovernables, New Museum
Triennial, New York (2012). In 2013, Pica will have solo exhibitions at MIT
List Visual Arts Centre, Massachusetts, and Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago. Pica was awarded The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists
2011.
Amalia Pica's exhibition is supported by The Henry Moore
Foundation, Catherine Petitgas, and Erica Roberts. Chisenhale Gallery
Exhibitions Partner 2012: Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
Talks and Events
Thursday 28 June, 7pm
Case
Study: What Makes A Sense of Place
A panel discussion to
launch a case study on A Sense of Place (2008–2011),
Chisenhale Gallery's artist-led exchange programme for local secondary
schools. This event will address current debates in art practice and
education and analyse how such projects sit within a wider gallery
programme.
Panelists include Anna Minton, author
of Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First
Century, and A Sense of Place lead artists Ruth Ewan
and Amalia Pica. The event will be chaired by curator, writer, and editor
of the A Sense of Place case study, Cathy Haynes.
Saturday 7 July, 3pm
Curator and writer Isobel Harbison in
conversation with Amalia Pica. This event will be followed by a drinks
reception to celebrate I am Tower of Hamlets....
Interim: Eddie Peake
Thursday 26 July, 7pm
Tickets from
www.wegottickets.com
Interim is a series of event-based commissions that take
place in the gallery between the exhibitions programme at Chisenhale
Gallery.
Chisenhale Gallery presents a one-night event devised
by Eddie Peake. Working in sculpture, painting, photography, and
performance, Peake's work often exaggerates the latent erotics and
playfulness at stake in the process of art making and its public
dissemination.
Eddie Peake (born 1981, London) lives and
works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include DEM, Cell
Project Space, London (2012); The Loving Clutches of My Hands,
Southard Reid, London (2011); Double Negative, Christopher
Crescent, London (2011); History, Lorcan O'Neill Streetview
Project, Rome (2010); and Ladies, Parade, London (2008).
Eddie Peake's performance is presented in cooperation with Tate
Modern: The Tanks.
Offsite / Onsite: Slow Boat
21 July–25 August
Chisenhale Gallery is collaborating
with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, on the second year of
Ikon's Slow Boat project, bringing together
the Ikon Youth Programme and Chisenhale Gallery's Young People's
group, Propeller, as they share a canal boat journey from
Birmingham to London and back again during Summer 2012.
Traveling at an average speed of four miles an hour, the journey from
Birmingham to London takes two weeks. Slow Boat will
arrive in London during the second week of the Olympic Games when it will
be moored on the canal behind Chisenhale Gallery. The young people are
working with artist Benedict Drew to produce a programme of activities and
artworks taking place on the boat and at the gallery. A launch
event will take place at the gallery on Saturday 4 August.
Slow Boat is supported by the Canal & River Trust
(British Waterways).
For further information, event
ticketing and reservations please visit: www.chisenhale.org.uk.
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