JIRO TAKAMATSU: THE WORLD EXPANDS

New York – Pace is pleased to present its first exhibition of Jiro Takamatsu since its representation of the artist’s estate this year.

September 20 – November 2, 2024

Bringing together a selection of his paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects dating from 1966 to 1997, this exhibition showcases his inventive, deeply philosophical practice and his important role in the development of Conceptual Art.

Viewing the act of creating as an intensely intellectual endeavor, Takamatsu adopted a somewhat reclusive, solitary lifestyle as part of his practice. Grounded by his thoughts about and observations of the world around him, the artist’s highly conceptual works often examine ideas about reality and the self, matter and space, and presence and absence.

In these illusionistic paintings depicting shadows of figures and objects, he presents a visual summation of the complex relationships between that which is at once existent and nonexistent, tangible and intangible, in both physical and metaphysical terms.

A selection of the artist’s Shadow paintings and drawings figures in Pace’s presentation in New York, alongside works from his lesser-known Perspective series.

Takamatsu began creating his Perspective paintings, drawings, and sculptures in the mid-1960s in tandem with his Shadow works, and the relationship between these two concepts hinges on the illusionistic potential of space, when perspective is bent by human intervention.