Robert Irwin and Mary Corse: Parallax

10 Oct-11 Nov 2023

PV 9 Oct 2023, 6-8pm

Overview

Pace Gallery is honoured to present Robert Irwin and Mary Corse: Parallax, an exhibition that brings together the work of two pioneering American artists.

“What I want is the quality of light, its energy, its existence as matter.”
— Robert Irwin

“The act of painting has the ability to transcend your moment. We need meaning which is consciousness. And I find it there in painting. I find the infinite conversation instead of finite thinking.”
— Mary Corse

Marking the first time their work has been brought into direct dialogue, this exhibition explores the intersections and convergences between these two artists’ radical experiments with light, perception, and the role of the viewer. Opening on 9 October, coinciding with Frieze London, the ground floor galleries will place Corse’s iconic White Inner Band paintings in conversation with the largest examples to date from Irwin’s Unlight series. The lower ground floor gallery will hold an immersive, site-specific light installation by Irwin. 

This exhibition comes at a significant moment for both artists, each of whom has been recognised by the Dia Art Foundation this year for their significant contributions to American art. Irwin—whose work Full Room Skylight – Scrim V – Dia Beacon (1972/2022) is currently the subject of an exhibition at Dia Beacon—was honoured as part of the Foundation’s Spring Benefit in May, while Corse, who was the subject of an exhibition at Dia Beacon that was on view from 2018 to 2022, will receive her honour in October.

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