Sui Jianguo

＜Dates＞ Thursday,Sep 21, – Thursday,Oct 26, 2023
＜Location＞ PACE
＜Open＞ 11:00-19:00　Sunday, Monday CLOSE

On view from September 21 to October 26, the show will spotlight eight sculptures and 10 works on paper created by the artist this year. An opening reception for the exhibition—which Sui will attend—will be held at the gallery on September 20 from 6 to 8 PM.

A leading figure in Chinese contemporary sculpture, Sui has developed his practice over the course of more than 30 years. Bringing a deep knowledge of materials and an interdisciplinary approach to his work in sculpture, Sui explores new ideas and directions in the medium while also honoring its ancient origins. In recent years, he has made use of tools like 3D scanning and digital engraving to create new phenomenological effects in his sculptures, inviting varied interpretations and readings.

Unlike that previous series, “Garden in the Cloud”, which experimented with scale, Sui’s new sculptures apply the artist’s exploration of technology to natural stone such as white marble. Considered the most traditional material in the long history of sculpture, marble gives these new works a certain materiality and classicism that is alien to the digital age. Using high-precision digital engraving technology, the artist works with automated robotic appendages to restore and enlarge details. He intentionally leaves the rough, original surface on the partial side of the polished stone, evoking the ancient memories of mankind rooted in the depths of the material.

Rendered in brass, stainless steel, cast bronze, white marble, or black marquina, each of Sui’s new sculptural works has entirely unique physical characteristics that evoke the audience’s physical experience and perception of time and space. For Sui, sculpture, as a mediator of perception, can activate the richness of the senses and remind people that their bodies are part of the natural world.

Forthcoming projects by Sui include the release of his first-ever NFT project, titled Nibiru, by Pace Verso, the gallery’s platform for integrated Web3 artworks, this fall. Conceptually related to the works Sui will show in Hong Kong, Nibiru centers on an imaginary extra-terrestrial body whose movements through the solar system are influenced by the invisible gravitational pulls of surrounding planets. Viewers of the NFT can move and tilt their cell phones—and zoom in and out of the meteoroid’s surface—to experience the Yin-Yang topology of inner and outer space. Tilting the orientation of the cell phone also enables viewers to orient their own bodies to Earth’s magnetic field, imbuing the work with a game-like, interactive ethos. Nibiru will be available through Pace Verso beginning November 7.

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