In collaboration with Gary Nader of Gary Nader Art Centre, Pace Gallery is pleased to present Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work, an exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and rarely seen bronze sculptures, including a significant loan from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, at its 510 West 25th Street space in New York. The Cuban artist, who early in his career associated with major European figures in the surrealist and cubist movements, invented a radically syncretic visual language that challenged the Eurocentricity of Modernism. Running from November 9 to December 21, the presentation traces the artist’s career from the late 1930s to the 1970s, exploring the influence of Lam’s heritage in his art. The exhibition is organized by Nader and Pace’s Senior Director and Curator Andria Hickey with curatorial contributions by Dr. Michaëla Mohrmann, a scholar and curator of Latin American art. The survey will be accompanied by a publication with new texts by scholars of Lam’s work, including a foreword by Alexander Alberro and essays by Kaira Cabañas, Alexandra Chang, and Samantha Noël. Produced by Pace Publishing, the catalogue sheds new light on the radical nature of Lam’s work and its social and political underpinnings, and traces the trajectories of his life and work in a chronology by Mohrmann.
