PICA opens in 2007 with a new public pool! Come in from the heat, enjoy the cool of the blue water but make sure you follow the rules or no swimming for you!
PICA Pool is a major new commission from Rodney Glick for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. The entire floor area of PICA?s Central Space, Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 will be covered by a made to scale, 1:1, a flat, hard-edged minimal painting. Different coloured tarpaulins are cut and stitched to create the pool's water, diving boards, depth markings, shadows, steps, spa and cement perimeter. A walkway around the pool stops people getting wet and the upstairs stand offers you a bird's eye view.
PICA Pool is a further development of a work produced in 2004 entitled Lap Pool where a stitched tarpaulin in the shape and dimensions of an Olympic length pool was placed down the middle of a suburban street. Both works invest the painterly history of flatness and spatial play while the coloured shaped canvas has a distinct Australian backyard familiarity. The image, while bordering on the ridiculous, speaks of the improbable and a desire to be a painter'ish.
Free artist's. Floortalk Thursday 16 February, 6pm. Free exhibition publication available from PICA during the exhibition.
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