Whipped Cream, 2006
This work is from an edition of five plus two artist proofs
54 3/4 x 75 inches (139 x 190.5 cm.)
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Born in Italy, Paola Pivi is a contemporary artist working with sculpture, video, photography, performance and installation. In her alternate Alaskan realm, Pivi’s iconic bears are covered in an unlikely coat – feathers –, practice yoga, and even dance together. Infused with human habits, her cast of wild animals result in vibrant and brightly-colored sculptures that look more like charming cartoons than the fearsome beasts of the Alaskan wild. Pivi uses commonly identifiable figures and adds a whimsical and highly recognizable twist, in the shape of a color, a material or a scale alteration, to challenge the viewer’s perception and relation to his own cultural references. In the case of airplanes, the artist plays with their natural position, inverting them upside down from their operational state. Pivi received the Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her inverted installation of a fighter jet.
The artist has featured whipped cream in several of her pieces. Emulating the snowy Alaskan landscape, the artist plays with the physical similarities of the dessert topping and the actual snow in Whipped Cream. Other works of the artist featuring whipped cream include an alligator emerging from a Florida lake covered in it.
