Pace Live Jiro Takamatsu: His World and Ours—a Curatorial Conversation Saturday, Nov 22 – 3 PMDoors: 1:30 PM540 West 25th StreetNew York EVENT DETAILSJiro Takamatsu: His World and Ours—a Curatorial ConversationSaturday, Nov 22 – 3 PMDoors: 1:30 PM540 West 25th StreetNew YorkHOW TO ATTEND (opens in a new window) RSVPCONNECT (opens in a new window) @iwasakiwasaki (opens in a new window) @pacegallery In conjunction with the exhibition Jiro Takamatsu: the World Expands, Pace Live presents a special in-gallery program to contextualize Jiro Takamatsu and his practice in the spatial, cultural, and social reorganization of post-war Tokyo–a uniquely vertiginous and potent site for both Japanese and international artists, architects, writers, and filmmakers. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1970 Osaka Expo (making its return in 2025), for instance, were pivotal geopolitical events and cultural contexts that artists such as Takamatsu provocatively responded to—via street happenings, public commissions, and interdisciplinary collaborations on futuristic imaginaries. Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions and Head Curator at the Queens Museum, will be in conversation with Pace Curatorial Director Xin Wang in exploring the discursive parameters that shaped Takamatsu’s practice and milieu, parallels with other global trajectories of conceptual art, and the perhaps unexpected ways Takamatsu’s approach to art making continues to reverberate, decades later, with our current moment. The 30 minute conversation follows a 15 minute curatorial walkthrough of the exhibition to provide an overview. Read More Past Jiro Takamatsu The World Expands Sep 20 – Nov 2, 2024 New York Hitomi IwasakiHitomi Iwasaki is Director of Exhibitions and Head Curator at the Queens Museum. She has worked on landmark exhibitions including Cai Guo -Qiang (1997); Out of India (1997), Global Conceptualism: Points of Origins 1950s-1980s (1999–2001), Caribbean: Crossroad of the World (2012), and After Midnight: Indian Moderns and Contemporary Indian Art (2016), as well as numerous group exhibitions of emerging artists, iterations of Queens International (2002, 2004, 2014 and 2016), and site-specific solo projects with Terence Gower, Johanna Unzueta, Daniel Bozhkov, Duke Riley, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Sable Elyse Smith, Jewyo Rhii, among many others. She organized Bringing the World into the World (2015), a major exhibition that centered around the Museum’s Panorama of the City of New York and its 50th anniversary with fifteen cross-generational international artists, and most recently major solo exhibitions by Patty Chang (2018), Christine Sun Kim (2022), Aliza Nisenbaum (2023), and Aki Sasamoto (2023-24). Hitomi won the International Association of Art Critic’s (IACA) Curator’s Award Best Project in a Public Space, 2009-2010. She has produced artist books including Patty Chang: Wandering lake (2018, with Dancing Foxes Press) and Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection (2024, with C.A.R.A.). Xin WangXin Wang is a New York-based art historian and Curatorial Director at Pace Gallery. Currently finishing a PhD dissertation on Soviet Hauntology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, she held curatorial and educational positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, and received the Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant in 2021. Publications such as “Asian Futurism and the Non-Other” have been widely circulated, translated and taught in university curriculums. An appointed faculty at Yale University’s MFA program in Photography since 2021, she served as the curator of the 4th art and technology themed biennial program—titled “To Your Eternity”—at Beijing’s Today Art Museum in fall 2023. Her upcoming publications include “Machine Envy” in the book Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence(Urbanomic and NYU Shanghai), and “Dance as Socialist World-Building” in Afterall Journal (issue 57). Journal View All Pace Publishing Pam Evelyn Nov 06, 2024 Artist Projects Lynda Benglis "Ghost of Smile" Limited-Edition T-Shirt Nov 01, 2024 Films When Painting Becomes Alive: Pam Evelyn on Her Latest Body of Work Oct 31, 2024 Pace Publishing Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions Oct 29, 2024 Pace Live — Jiro Takamatsu: His World and Ours—a Curatorial Conversation, Nov 2, 2024