Pace Publishing Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat PUBLICATION DETAILS:Text by Alfred Pacquement, Lee Ufan, Claude ViallatDesign by Tomo Makiura and Alexis Liebes 2023Paperback96 pages10 ½ × 9 inSHOP: (opens in a new window) Order Now Read More Documenting their first joint exhibition, this volume presents an ongoing dialogue between Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat, as well as the artistic movements in which they each played key roles.Both born in 1936, Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat have dedicated nearly seven decades to their respective practices and founded major artistic movements—Mono-ha in Japan and Supports/Surfaces in France, respectively—centered around their commitment to abstraction as a means of engaging philosophical ideas of time, space, and material.A two-person exhibition, Encounter, organized by curator Alfred Pacquement at Pace in London in June 2023, marked the first time the two artists and friends exhibited in conversation with one another. Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat both documents and expands upon this conversation, with extensive photography and new texts by Lee, Viallat, and Pacquement that explore the many throughlines between two distinctive oeuvres. Encompassing both recent and significant historical works, this volume is a testament to these artists’ boundary-breaking practices. Read More The artists’ interpretation of the material supporting expression we see in Supports/Surfaces is exceptional. . . . The material is not an element to create symbols; it emphasizes the quality of anonymous signs and neutral actions. Lee Ufan Seeing Lee Ufan’s work. . . was a revelation to me, a simple act modifying a material with such efficiency and proposing, at the same time as the reading following the act, a fixed scattering; it was truly a suspended moment. Claude Viallat Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat (opens in a new window) Order Now (opens in a new window) Explore Our Books (opens in a new window) Browse Our Shop Read More Pace Publishing — Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat, Jan 23, 2024