ART SG with Pace Gallery
Singapore | Art SG
ART SG 2023
Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Booth BF04
January 12-15, 2023
We are glad to announce Pace Gallery’s participation in the coming ART SG. Pace Gallery details its presentation for the inaugural edition of ART SG in Singapore. The gallery’s booth (#BF04) will spotlight paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, and new media works by international and intergenerational artists across its program, including key 20th century figures Alexander Calder, Kiki Kogelnik, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and Antoni Tàpies. These pieces will be situated in conversation with works by contemporary artists Huong Dodinh, Latifa Echakhch, Matthew Day Jackson, Glenn Kaino, Lee Kun-Yong, and Kylie Manning, all of whom joined the gallery between 2021 and 2022. The booth will also spotlight works by David Hockney, whose solo exhibition David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures opens at Pace’s New York gallery on January 13, 2023, Tim Eitel, Elmgreen & Dragset, Lee Ufan, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Kohei Nawa, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Turrell, teamLab, and Brent Wadden. Leading Chinese contemporary artists in Pace’s program—including Liu Jianhua, Qiu Xiaofei, Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, and Zhang Xiaogang—will also figure prominently on its booth at ART SG. Underscoring its commitment to supporting artists’ advanced studio practices and boundary-pushing digital projects, the gallery will also showcase recent web3 projects by Loie Hollowell and Leo Villareal in its booth at the fair.
Among the highlights in Pace’s ART SG presentation is Golf Typhoon (1996), a five-foot-tall sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, who married in 1977 and worked as artistic collaborators for over 30 years, realizing more than 40 large- scale public projects around the world. Renowned for sculptures, drawings, and colossal public monuments that transform familiar objects into animated entities, Oldenburg, who died this year at age 93, was a leading voice of the Pop Art movement. Golf Typhoon, a bronze, acrylic polyurethane enamel, and aluminum sculpture depicting a lively choreography of golf clubs and balls, exemplifies the two artists’ deep interest in the playfulness of the everyday.
The gallery’s booth will include Alexander Calder’s ca. 1955 sculpture Bird, which the artist created using tin cans and wire, and Louise Nevelson’s 1962 wall relief of abstractions forged from cardboard, newsprint, paint, and paper collage. These works, along with Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s sculpture, speak to Pace’s role in shaping the history of art in the 20th century.
James Turrell’s mesmeric, sensorial installation Rama, Rectangular Glass (2021) will be a focal point of the booth. A major figure of the Light and Space movement, Turrell has dedicated his career to investigating the phenomenological and perceptual possibilities of light, space, and color. Also in the way of installation, the gallery’s booth will include Relatum - play of primitive (2015) by Lee Ufan, who recently opened an extension of his foundation in Arles, France.
Pace’s ART SG booth will bring together paintings by Qiu Xiaofei; Latifa Echakhch, who represented Switzerland in the 59th Venice Biennale; and Huong Dodinh, Kylie Manning, and Matthew Day Jackson, all of whom joined the gallery in 2022. Sculptures in the presentation will include a work from Song Dong’s Usefulness of Uselessness series; Tailbone (Stainless Steel) (2021), a dynamic, reflective composition by the duo Elmgreen & Dragset, whose solo exhibition at By Art Matters in Hangzhou, China is on view until April 9, 2023; and a work from The Surging Waves Chronicles series by Yin Xiuzhen, who recently opened a solo exhibition at Pace’s Hong Kong gallery.
Web3 projects by Loie Hollowell and Leo Villareal will also be presented by Pace’s at ART SG. An NFT from Villareal’s generative Cosmic Reef series, which debuted on the leading generative art platform Art Blocks this year, will be featured on the gallery’s booth. Cosmic Reef draws on an infinite array of sequences in the natural world to meditate on randomness, beauty, and symmetry. The individual works begin with a simple geometry that becomes more complex through composed dynamic layers, each born of a combination of human control and computational chance. An NFT from Hollowell’s recent Contractions series, released as part of a multifaceted partnership between Art Blocks and Pace Verso, the gallery’s web3 hub, will also be exhibited. Contractions is based on Hollowell’s sculptural Split Orb paintings, in which two bifurcated orbs are situated one on top of the other, with the top orb representing the artist’s brain and the lower orb signifying her pregnant belly and cervix. Hollowell’s colorful, textural Split Orb works focus on the visceral experience of vaginal birth. Featuring variations in their hues, saturations, and textures, these orbs reflect, on a conceptual level, the artist’s shifting state of mind and body during childbirth, with each of the colors describing her ranging emotional states. Hollowell’s generative Contractions NFTs, like her paintings and drawings, explore the bodily landscape through a language of otherworldly abstraction.
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