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Pace Gallery in London opens Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes |
| October 15th, 2012 01:35:08 am |
LONDON.- Following its recent announcement of plans to open a major gallery in Mayfair, Pace London presents Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes at 6 Burlington Gardens from 4 October through 17 November 2012. The inaugural exhibition juxtaposes Mark Rothko's late black and grey paintings with Hiroshi Sugimoto’s contemporary photographs of bodies of water. The exhibition marks the first private gallery presentation of Rothko’s work in London in nearly fifty years and continues Pace’s five-decade tradition of exhibitions that explore affinities between artists working across decades and mediums. Dark Paintings and Seascapes pairs eight acrylic paintings by Rothko and eight gelatin silver prints by Sugimoto, revealing two different artistic approaches that arrive at similar conclusions. Rothko's use of medium as pure abstraction communes with the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto who, decades later, used the medi |
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