Institute of Contemporary Arts

Falke Pisano: Figure 1 (Context, Past, Present, Future)

£120

Falke Pisano’s diagrammatic works expose a loop, in which shifting abstract sculptural forms are conceived directly in relation to written and spoken language, implying an ongoing and morphing production of meaning.

The artist’s print for the ICA refers to a recent work which formed part of a lecture, Figures of Speech, and of Figures of Speech (diagrammed), which includes a group of wall sculptures which act as symbolic representations of the ‘positions’ described in the lecture. Pisano’s edition for the ICA illustrates one of these positions, and the artist sees the image as a symbol of an art object that incorporates an awareness of its construction (the red stripes) and of its own past (the white squares).

Falke Pisano lives and works in Amsterdam. Projects this year include the Venice Biennale and a solo exhibition at Kunstverein, Graz. The artist will feature in the forthcoming ICA exhibition For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there (3rd December 2009 – 31st January 2010).

£120 (£108 for ICA Members)

This print is part of the ICA Print Portfolio 2009. The other editions in the portfolio are Matthew Brannon, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, and Aleksandra Mir.

For more information, or to order, contact Vicky Steer, ICA Editions Manager (on 020 7766 1425 or vicky.steer@ica.org.uk ).