Through their mural on the famous white wall of the Beursschouwburg café, the collective would like to create a window that offers the viewer access to an imaginary field: the Flemish countryside, the Norwegian tundra, Mars, the view from a hunting tower ... Stare out in front of you, dream away and let your imagination run free ...
Atelier Pica Pica is a multidisciplinary collective that works with painting, sculpture, photography and site-specific installations.
Their activities centre around the curious investigation of our urban, rural and cultural surroundings and how they interact and impact on each other. They also take an idiosyncratic interest in the duality of the periphery. Shapes, structures, surfaces, patterns, as well as random colours and textures are tested, juxtaposed, related and deconstructed in paintings and sculptures.
The collective, who are visual scientists and artists, use a wide variety of materials, including wood, metal, glass, bicycle tyres and various types of paint (such as oil, acrylic and lacquer). The upshot, as well as the basis for all their works, is an authentic, intuitive, distinctive and genuine visual vocabulary. Atelier Pica Pica has, as it were, created its own modus operandi where the artistic dimension, life and meaning become one.
The collective consist of Boris Magotteaux (1978), Manuel Falcata (1979) and Jerome Degive (1980), all born and raised in Liège, Belgium.
