Bøger udgivet af PACE GALLERY

The final works of the photorealist pioneer, made with a palette of only three colorsSince the 1970s, Chuck Close (1940-2021) has been known for his innovative approach to conceptual portraiture, systematically transposing his subjects' likenesses from photographs into gridded paintings. Published on the occasion of Pace Gallery's first exhibition of the artist's work since his death in 2021, Red, Yellow, and Blue spotlights Close's final body of paintings, which employ a palette of only three colors. Layering transparent glazes of red, yellow and blue paint, Close created an effect of abstract likeness entirely different from that of his previous work. Alongside studio photography and images of Close's mosaic works, this volume features a previously unpublished 2018 interview between Close and Cindy Sherman--originally commissioned by the Brooklyn Rail--as well as a new critical essay by Carter Ratcliff, which considers Close's final works in depth. An additional essay by Barbara Knappmeyer examines the artist's portraits in the context of facial recognition technology.

Filled with diminutive patterns of shapes and colors, Nozkowski's small-scale paintings reflect the artist's own brilliant and changing worldThomas Nozkowski (1944-2019) developed a singular approach to painting that rejected established aesthetic conventions. Most notably, he spurned the oversized canvases favored by the Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists and instead painted on 16-by-20-inch boards purchased from a local art store. Everything in the World centers on a formative period of the artist's career during which he set out specific aesthetic terms for his practice. The 1970s and 1980s saw major changes in Nozkowski's personal life, including the birth of his son and the purchase of his first property in New York's Hudson Valley--a place that would become an enduring inspiration for his work. Zeroing in on these two decades, this publication presents the artist's signature, intimately scaled compositions alongside three painted wood sculptures and several large-scale painting that have not been publicly exhibited in decades.

Reproductions of more than a dozen of Picasso's sketchbooks, spanning 50 years of experimentation and innovation The publication of this engaging collection of Picasso's sketchbooks marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Bringing together 14 sketchbooks dating between 1900 and 1959, this cache of archival material encompasses nearly every period of Picasso's career and connects his most well-known bodies of work. The 2023 exhibition 14 Sketchbooks built upon the 1986 Pace Gallery exhibition Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso, which was the first dedicated showing of his sketchbooks.This sketchbook-like volume features reproductions from the 14 books that trace the evolution of Picasso's observations and ideas across his distinctive stylistic periods. All sketchbooks are contextualized by curatorial advisors and Picasso experts Marilyn McCully and Michael Raeburn. Blank pages at the back of the publication invite the reader to contribute their own sketches and ideas.

Lush and psychedelic digital depictions of flowersSince the early 1960s, multimedia artist Lucas Samaras (born 1936) has worked across mediums to advance a Surrealist idiom that departs from the trappings of Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Over the decades, his interest in self-representation and object transformation has expanded to include experimentations in photography and--beginning in 1996, when he obtained his first computer--digital art. This volume, conceived and published by Pace Gallery, narrows the scope of Samaras' oeuvre to focus on his psychedelic digital distortions of flowers. It comprises 110 color images featuring flora of all kinds: in gardens, along sidewalks, in landfills or superimposed onto kaleidoscopic abstract backgrounds. Taken together, these augmented images form an intriguing part of Samaras' recent work.

A window into the lifelong friendship and artistic dialogue between two leaders in painterly and sculptural abstractionBoth born in 1936, Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat each played key roles in major movements: Mono-ha in Japan and Supports/Surfaces in France. This book documents their first joint exhibition in 2023 at Pace Gallery, London, with illustrations of their work and new texts by Lee, Viallat and curator Alfred Pacquement.

New works from the celebrated Brazilian virtuoso of joyously chromatic abstractionPublished in conjunction with the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes' (born 1960) first solo exhibition at Pace since she joined the gallery in 2020, this book spotlights 10 vibrant, large-scale paintings she created during pandemic quarantine, as well as an immersive multimedia installation titled Gamboa III (2020), which incorporates materials found in carnival props. Including additional images of Milhazes' previous sculptural works and new texts that illuminate her highly generative practice, the publication immerses readers in the artist's colorful, spiritual world. An essay by curator Mark Godfrey explores Milhazes' art as it relates to the terms "landscape" and "logo," "structure" and "spontaneity" and "surface" and "spirituality"; and a conversation between Milhazes and fellow artist Polly Apfelbaum delves into Milhazes' emergence within the international art scene and her relationship with her practice today.

Tuttle dialogues with the modernist abstractionist through new drawing and sculpture seriesRichard Tuttle (born 1941) has long been interested in questions of perception surrounding line and scale, which he explores in his compositions and constructions using nontraditional mediums, materials and methods. In Calder/Tuttle: Tentative, the artist looks to the oeuvre of the great Alexander Calder (1898-1976) for inspiration and creative dialogue.This book presents a series of Tuttle's drawings, titled Calder Corrected, and sculptures, titled Black Light, exhibited at Kordansky Gallery in response to a range of works by Calder that he selected and installed at Pace in Los Angeles. With new text and a poem by Tuttle and a poem by Alexander S.C. Rower, founder of the Calder Foundation, Calder/Tuttle: Tentative offers a fresh perspective on familiar favorites.

An immersive window into the artistic world of a founding member of the New York SchoolAbstract Expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-92) forged a unique artistic path through a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms. This volume provides a detailed look at his influential career, featuring extensive archival material alongside a selection of work since the 1950s spanning painting, drawing, sculpture and photography.

New and classic texts on Africa's unfulfilled project of decolonizationFeaturing republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of today's leading artists and writers, Living with Ghosts: A Reader explores the ways that Africa's unresolved colonial traumas and its unfulfilled project of decolonization haunt the present global order. This reader expands on these complex ideas through philosophical, historical and literary approaches. Reprinted texts by thinkers such as Achille Mbembe, C.L.R. James and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni explore the historical experiences of the African postcolony and the problematics of decolonization. Meditations on artists including John Akomfrah and Abraham Oghobase provide engaging entry points to their work. Also featured is a conversation between Bouchra Khalili and KJ Abudu.Contributors include: Achille Mbembe, Jacques Derrida, C.L.R. James, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Emmanuel Iduma, Walter D. Mignolo, Avery F. Gordon, Adjoa Armah and Joshua Segun-Lean.

In a new series, Qiu combines research into human consciousness and synesthesia with an intimate literary and fantastical visual experienceThis publication focuses on the rich historical, political and spiritual allusions in the paintings of Qiu Xiaofei (born 1977). Writings by writer and artist Travis Jeppesen, critic Yan Chi and Qiu himself are accompanied by images of the artist's fantastical compositions, with details recorded on foldouts.

"Ghenie's meditation on the idea of hooliganism, examining the role of rebellion in the artistic process, is applied here toward an excavation of art history and European history." -Art ObservedThis book documents a selection of works by artist Adrian Ghenie (born 1977) included in his exhibition The Hooligans. The artist's newest body of work, these nine paintings and three drawings continue Ghenie's exploration of abstracting figures, layering shapes and gestural painting techniques to create complex images intertwined with art historical narratives. Influenced by Impressionist painters, as well as Turner, Van Gogh and Gauguin, Ghenie's meditation on the idea of "hooliganism" examines the role of rebellion in an artist's process, working to reject or ignore traditionalism to create the new. An art historical text by Apsara DiQuinzio traces the trajectory of Ghenie's practice through to today. In her new text, Masha Tupitsyn discusses the concept of the double, looking at its history in philosophy, literature, film and art.

This is the first monograph on New York-based artist Robert Nava (born 1985), who paints using a raw, energetic mixing of spray paint, acrylics and grease pencil. Nava's paintings of fantastical, hybrid beasts, angels and monsters exude a playful candidness that invites viewers to reconnect with the unbridled imagination of their childhoods. Nava's strongly contemporary aesthetic is deeply rooted in art history and the tradition of monumental history painting.00Focusing on Nava's first exhibition in London, this fully illustrated book includes his new series of large-scale battle scene paintings featuring a chimerical world of metamorphic creatures, drawing inspiration from sources as disparate as prehistoric cave paintings, Egyptian art and cartoons. A text by art historian Jason Rosenfeld and an interview with renowned sculptor Huma Bhabha also feature. With photographs of Nava's sketchbooks and the artist working in his studio, this book is a personal and comprehensive view of his work and process.00Exhibition: Pace Gallery, London, UK (13.05.-25.06.2022).

Exploring the evolution of Agnes Martin's sublime use of colorThis handsomely designed, concise volume celebrates Agnes Martin's pursuit of beauty, happiness and innocence in her nonobjective art created while living in the desert of New Mexico. From her multicolored striped works to compositions of color-washed bands defined by hand-drawn lines, to the deep gray Black Paintings that characterized her work in the late 1980s, Martin's treatment of color in each of these phases is examined.A particular emphasis is placed on the latter half of her career and the broadening vision that developed during her years working in the desert, which crystalized her quest to deepen her understanding of the essence of painting, unattached to emotion or subject, yet radiant and meditative in its pure abstraction.With editorial contributions by a selection of writers whose cross-genre works span art writing, essay and memoir, this book expands an approach to Martin's paintings beyond a purely art historical lens, bringing new voices into the conversations around her career, inviting a rediscovery of her enduring legacy. An essay by author Durga Chew-Bose provides a poetic exploration of color; the writer Olivia Laing (author of The Lonely City) discusses the nature of solitude in her text; and Bruce Hainley uses a 1974 essay by Jill Johnston as a jumping-off point to delve into Martin's life during her years in New Mexico.