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Place perception: Nathalie Du Pasquier’s exploration of vibrancy, geometry and space

French painter Nathalie du Pasquier is more commonly associated with the Memphis group, the design collective which revolutionised design in the 1980s. However, Du Pasquier’s work has developed in a personal, intimate direction since the group’s dismantling in 1987, and...

Out of this world: TeamLab adds another dimension to Pace Gallery

Stepping off a bustling Mayfair street into Pace Gallery for the much anticipated preview of TeamLab’s ’Transcending Boundaries’, we are plunged unexpectedly into darkness. Hands trace along blackout curtains, until one gives way, and we are ushered into a large room filled...

Frieze London 2016 takes a nostalgic turn, as galleries look back to the Nineties

‘Contemporary art is struggling to address real events in the art world right now,’ claimed Gregor Muir, executive director of the ICA, two weeks before Frieze opened. As co-curator of the fair’s talks programme, he chose the theme ‘Borderlands’...

Corporeal company: Random International explores movement with robots and mirrors

How much visual information does one need to discern another moving human? What is the relationship between man and machine? These abstruse questions yield surprisingly playful answers in ‘On the Body’, a new exhibition by Random International at the Pace...

Wood work: Louise Nevelson’s monochrome sculptures fill Pace London

In the flamboyant heyday that was post-war New York, a 60-year-old Russian expat with fake eyelashes and a passion for headscarves was the artist of the moment. Photographed by Cecil Beaton and Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Nevelson is now considered to be...

’The Yosemite Suite’: Pace Gallery exhibits David Hockney’s bucolic iPad drawings

David Hockney has done it again. Until 18 June, Pace Gallery in New York is showing ‘The Yosemite Suite’, a collection of the artist’s iPad drawings. Hockney visited Yosemite National Park in 2010 and 2011; as part of his continued...

Chinese import: Pace Gallery stages Qiu Xiaofei’s first solo North American show

Opening at New York’s Pace Gallery this week, ’Double Pendulum’ is the first solo exhibition in North America for the Chinese contemporary artist Qiu Xiaofei. This show, in particular, is a true departure from Qiu’s usual work, that has historically...

Spiritual side: Hiroshi Sugimoto explores space and time with his ’Sea of Buddha’

Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has long received attention for his introspective and immersive images, which reveal time, light and atmosphere while being frequently embedded with art historical monuments and sculptural figures (such as of the revered Buddha). In fact, he has...

Testing the water: Maya Lin’s new river installations at Pace Gallery Hong Kong

American artist and architect Maya Lin’s thoughtful exhibition at Pace Gallery’s Hong Kong outpost offers a salutary lesson in the power of simple and pure forms reflecting a deeper meaning. Lin first made a name for herself as a student...

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Perfect porcelain: Liu Jianhua makes his UK debut at London’s Pace Gallery

’The title of the exhibition is meant to express the abstract idea of the relationship between the works and the space, the viewers, and between the two different cultures of tradition and modernity,’ says Chinese artist Liu Jianhua of...

Setting pace: long-awaited showing of Robert Rauschenberg’s late works draws snaking queues in New York

Robert Rauschenberg, the revered painter and print maker who also turned to assemblage and installation work, has never stopped astounding art enthusiasts, so it’s no surprise that Pace Gallery’s ‘Robert Rauschenberg: Anagrams, Arcadian Retreats, (A Pun)’, which opened this week in...