This abstract artwork features a hexagonal composition with bold, contrasting colors. The prominent green and blue triangular shapes, set against a pale pink background, create a striking visual balance and geometric form. The artist's use of clean lines, flat planes, and a limited color palette reflects a minimalist aesthetic, emphasizing the inherent beauty of simple, two-dimensional shapes. This piece exemplifies the Modernist tradition, where the artwork's formal elements and composition take precedence over any specific subject matter or representational imagery, inviting the viewer to engage with the artwork's core visual properties. ...
Amalia Pica’s practice, which includes sculpture, performance, installation, drawing and video, explores human communication, its failures and intimacy. Human modes of interaction, such as the desire to be understood and accepted, are central to her work. Pica uses found objects, like hair brushes, wine bottles and confetti, verbal and non-verbal linguistic tools, like texts and venn diagrams, out-dated means of communication, like shutter telegraphs and slide projectors. Her live performances are audience-driven, creating situations of encounters, awkward and real. Having been born during the 'Dirty War' in Argentina, Pica’s works further consider the issue of state control, history, representation and systems of bureaucracy. In her performances, she explores the ways civic participation can become a mode of resistance to political oppression across time and cultures. ...
Proyectos Ultravioleta was founded in Guatemala City in 2009 as an independent artist-run space, and has since established itself as a leading voice in contemporary art in Latin America and beyond.
