MAY 29, 2020 

Image: Kohei Nawa, "PixCell-Biwa#5(Mica)," 2019, mixed media, 34-1/4" × 11-5/8" × 8-3/4" (87 cm × 29.5 cm × 22.2 cm) ©️ Kohei Nawa 

Chewing Gum IV

May 28 – Jul 2, 2020

12/F, H Queen's

Hong Kong

Chewing Gum IV continues Pace’s sustained studies of the individual creative states of contemporary artists from different temporal, regional, and cultural backgrounds.

Here, the everyday act of “chewing” alludes to the ways in which a globalized context tends to dispel, and even dissolve cultural differences, encouraging viewers to consider new interpretations and connections between the works on view. Featured artists include Kohei Nawa, Kenneth Noland, Thomas Nozkowski, Adam Pendleton, Michal Rovner, Tony Smith, Xiao Yu and Zhang Xiaogang.

Kohei Nawa 

​Kohei Nawa is a multidisciplinary artist whose diverse practice explores the perception of virtual and physical space and examines the relationship between nature and artificiality, and between the individual and the whole, illustrating how parts aggregate together, like cells, to create complex and dynamic structures. 

Kenneth Noland 

​Kenneth Noland was a primary force in the development of postwar abstract art and color field painting. 

Thomas Nozkowski 

​Thomas Nozkowski is recognized for his richly colored and intimately scaled abstract paintings and drawings that push the limits of visual language. 

Adam Pendleton 

​Adam Pendleton uses historical and aesthetic content from texts and visual culture to critically examine the resonance of ideas from varied cultural perspectives, including social resistance movements and Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. 

Michal Rovner 

​Michal Rovner’s work shifts between the poetic and the political to explore questions of nature, identity, dislocation, and the fragility of human existence. 

Tony Smith 

​Tony Smith considered his process to be intuitive, his work resting close to the unconscious and exploring themes of spirituality and presence in a synthesis of geometric abstraction and expressionism. 

Xiao Yu 

​Xiao Yu examines symbols associated with Chinese identity, as well as the ecology of the art world, through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and installation. 

Zhang Xiaogang

​Zhang Xiaogang is recognized for his figurative paintings and sculptures that navigate the cultural terrain of contemporary China and question notions of identity and the construction of memory.