Nigel Cooke: Sea Mirror
Pace is pleased to present Sea Mirror, an exhibition of new work by Nigel Cooke, at its gallery in Seoul. On view from April 11 to May 17, this show will span the gallery鈥檚 second and third floors, bringing together never-before-seen canvases created as part of Cooke鈥檚 new experimentations with portrait formats and panoramic scales, as well as a selection of 11 paintings on paper produced on the Spanish island of Formentera.
With Sea Mirror鈥攖he artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition Seoul鈥擟ooke continues his explorations of memory, myth, and the passage of time through his distinctive visual vocabulary of gesture and touch. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue from Pace Publishing featuring new texts by writer Chloe Aridjis and Marcelle Polednik, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin.
Cooke is renowned for his evocative, atmospheric paintings that blend figurative and abstract forms within layered compositions. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of subjects鈥攊ncluding literature, paleontology, neuroscience, mythology, and zoology鈥攈is work merges personal narratives with broader cultural and natural histories. Through intricate networks of calligraphic marks, Cooke explores the intersection of painting, thinking, and perception, where image and meaning emerge from the convergence of disparate elements to create portraits of psychological and physical spaces alike. His intuitive process is often guided by his experiences in different parts of the world and other autobiographical material, and his works can be found in major collections and institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Tate in London, the Pinault Collection in Paris, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Long Museum in Shanghai, among others.
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Pace is pleased to present Sea Mirror, an exhibition of new work by Nigel Cooke, at its gallery in Seoul. On view from April 11 to May 17, this show will span the gallery鈥檚 second and third floors, bringing together never-before-seen canvases created as part of Cooke鈥檚 new experimentations with portrait formats and panoramic scales, as well as a selection of 11 paintings on paper produced on the Spanish island of Formentera.
With Sea Mirror鈥攖he artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition Seoul鈥擟ooke continues his explorations of memory, myth, and the passage of time through his distinctive visual vocabulary of gesture and touch. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue from Pace Publishing featuring new texts by writer Chloe Aridjis and Marcelle Polednik, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin.
Cooke is renowned for his evocative, atmospheric paintings that blend figurative and abstract forms within layered compositions. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of subjects鈥攊ncluding literature, paleontology, neuroscience, mythology, and zoology鈥攈is work merges personal narratives with broader cultural and natural histories. Through intricate networks of calligraphic marks, Cooke explores the intersection of painting, thinking, and perception, where image and meaning emerge from the convergence of disparate elements to create portraits of psychological and physical spaces alike. His intuitive process is often guided by his experiences in different parts of the world and other autobiographical material, and his works can be found in major collections and institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Tate in London, the Pinault Collection in Paris, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Long Museum in Shanghai, among others.
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