Nathalie Du Pasquier

On view from January 20 to March 18, 2020, Nathalie Du Pasquier: the strange order of things 2 will feature over thirty recent works. Following its debut at Pace Gallery in Seoul in 2019, the exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of themes of color, shape, and space.

Du Pasquier’s oeuvre has blurred the boundaries between fine art and design. Her design work gained prominence while a member of the Italian design collective Memphis. In 1987, she began focusing primarily on painting, repurposing mundane objects as models to engage her interest in perception. Over her career, the wooden abstract objects she had made gradually appeared in her paintings. In recent years, Du Pasquier’s work has merged into purely abstract forms. As with her early architecture and design work, the new paintings and drawings continue to reflect her interest in the spatial relationships between objects.

The exhibition will also feature five new precious boxes designed by Du Pasquier. They include the artist’s most recent book, the strange order of things, published by Pace and Humboldt Books, as well as two silk screen prints, three additional booklets and an original work on paper. The remarkable book features a contribution by Kunsthalle Wien curator Luca Lo Pinto. “Nathalie’s work allows you to travel far without moving a muscle. Every painting she leaves behind provides a pathway leading into the realm of imagination,” explains Lo Pinto. “[Her] imagination is constantly enriched by new objects and signs. A work that sets its own limits in each instant, yet which at the same time is always ready to escape the framework of any rules, venturing into unknown territory.” Interspersed with unique drawings as well as quotes by artistic and philosophical inspirations, the boxes function as an independent artwork that further contemplates the strange order of things.