Nigel Cooke

＜Dates＞ Saturday,Nov 23, 2018 – Saturday,Jan 4, 2019
＜Location＞ PACE
＜Open＞ 11:00-19:00　Sunday, Monday CLOSE

Pace Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by British artist Nigel Cooke. The first solo show for the artist in Asia, this exhibition introduces a new body of work, in which Cooke explores the interplay between memory and invention. Beginning with his real-life experiences and visited landscapes, Cooke infuses the memories of these sites with a range of new ideas—thoughts on the nature of creativity, recollections of other personal moments, or responses to historical paintings and works of literature—culminating in paintings that present the artist’s “psychological landscape”.

“A painting happens because the place I have seen or experienced has made contact with something in my mind,” says Cooke. “Inspiration lets me see the everyday thing in the light of other, more obscure, personal ideas. It’s alright that the viewer doesn’t know where these images come from or what they are about to me. A painting for me is a conversation on the complexity of how we perceive phenomena in general. To get this across, I draw on many layers of thought simultaneously as I make each image. I want to make as rich and memorable an image as I can with what my lived experience throws up, so that hopefully the paintings become immersive and spark ideas in others.”

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