LONDON, ENGLAND.- Gallery 32 at the Brazilian Embasssy in London presents "Giacomo Picca - Trees for the Wood," on view through d February 27, 2003. The final exhibition in the Brazilian Embassy’s year-long ARTBRAZIL+ series, Giacomo Picca’s "Trees for the Wood" represents an intriguing and playful response to debates in contemporary painting, treading the ground between painting as a space of fiction and the materiality of its objecthood. In "Trees for the Wood" Giacomo Picca uses the “tree” as a mediator of personal experiences and a shared sign operating in different cultural spaces. Working with the subject of wood as both the material of the work and the pictorial protagonist, Picca’s new work presents a series of landscapes which explore the cultures of wood, from the philosophical territories of Romanticism to more ‘home grown’ craft based activities, to the industrial processes of the timber yard. The power tool is in evidence as is the language of Modernist Abstraction but so are the sympathetic processes of woodcarving and the more explicit references to the genre of landscape painting.

Giacomo Picca lives and works in London. He was born in Brazil and trained as an Engineer in Sao Paulo before moving to London to study Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design, Wimbledon School of Art and finally completing his MA at Goldsmiths College in 2000. Picca has exhibited widely throughout the UK and has recently presented a solo show in Madrid. "Trees for the Wood" is his first solo show in London.