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Nearly 50 years after The Pace Gallery was founded by Arne Glimcher in 1960, PaceWildenstein is pleased to announce the opening of Pace Beijing, a 22,000 square foot gallery space located in the contemporary art district of Beijing. The building, once a munitions factory, dates from the early 1960s. The district, known as Factory 798, is the 3rd most popular site-seeing destination in China after the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. Pace Beijing’s inaugural exhibition, Encounters, opens on August 8, 2008, during the XXIX Olympic Games. The exhibition of Western and Asian portraiture will feature works by artists such as Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Lucas Samaras, and Tim Eitel as well as Zhang Huan and Zhang Xiaogang, who both joined the gallery in April 2007. Pace Beijing will present four to six exhibitions a year with the primary focus on contemporary Chinese artists. Pace Beijing will also incorporate Western and Asian photography and prints into its exhibition program with the assistance of Pace/MacGill and Pace Prints of New York.