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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.

"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).