West Bund Art & Design

Central to Pace’s presentation will be works by a group of leading Chinese artists. Zhang Xiaogang’s recent work Bed No.1 continues the artist’s navigation through the cultural terrain of contemporary China, departing from individual memory and questions of identity and into the realm of collective memory. Song Dong’s Usefulness of Uselessness series uses quotidian subjects and ephemera to propose the destabilization of material hierarchies in relationship to personal and global themes. His works are currently on view at the opening exhibition of the newly renovated Museum of Modern Art in New York. The presentation will also include a signature piece of Yin Xiuzhen’s recent body of work. Her Wall Instrument series combines the artist’s characteristic usage of worn clothes with ceramics, presenting Yin’s exploration of contrasts in materials. Also a key figure in Chinese contemporary art, Qiu Xiaofei is known for his paintings that evoke a dreamlike state of memory and awaken the potential of perception that is hidden in the depths of the mind, as experienced through Spiralling Sky, which will be on view.

Kohei Nawa, teamLab, and Leo Villareal each integrate advanced technologies into their creations. In addition to teamLab’s mesmerizing recent work Reversible Rotation-Cold Light, created this year, the booth showcases Nawa’s Direction and PixCell series, which explore the perception of virtual and physical space and examine the relationship between nature and artificiality. Villareal works with pixels and binary code to create complex, rhythmic compositions in light, with his Large Could Drawing 1 and Evanescence included at West Bund.

Additional highlights of the booth will include two of David Hockney’s iPad drawings from 2011, a geometric bronze sculpture by Joel Shapiro, a drawing by Kiki Smith, an early painting by Thomas Nozkowski made between 1994 and 1997 and a later piece from 2014, and a thinnam on gesso panel work by Prabhavathi Meppayil.