Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat
Cover of Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat, 2024 ©Pace Gallery
Documenting their first joint exhibition, this volume presents an ongoing dialogue between Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat, as well as the artistic movements in which they each played key roles.
Both born in 1936, Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat have dedicated nearly seven decades to their respective practices and founded major artistic movements—Mono-ha in Japan and Supports/Surfaces in France, respectively—centered around their commitment to abstraction as a means of engaging philosophical ideas of time, space, and material.
Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat, 2024 ©Pace Gallery
“The artists’ interpretation of the material supporting expression we see in Supports/Surfaces is exceptional. . . . The material is not an element to create symbols; it emphasizes the quality of anonymous signs and neutral actions.”
A two-person exhibition, Encounter, organized by curator Alfred Pacquement at Pace in London in June 2023, marked the first time the two artists and friends exhibited in conversation with one another. Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat both documents and expands upon this conversation, with extensive photography and new texts by Lee, Viallat, and Pacquement that explore the many throughlines between two distinctive oeuvres. Encompassing both recent and significant historical works, this volume is a testament to these artists’ boundary-breaking practices.
Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat, 2024 ©Pace Gallery
“Seeing Lee Ufan’s work. . . was a revelation to me, a simple act modifying a material with such efficiency and proposing, at the same time as the reading following the act, a fixed scattering; it was truly a suspended moment.”
Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat, 2024 ©Pace Gallery
Publication Details:
Text by Alfred Pacquement, Lee Ufan, Claude Viallat
Design by Tomo Makiura and Alexis Liebes
2023
Paperback
96 pages
10 ½ × 9 in
Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat, 2024 ©Pace Gallery
The book can be ordered here, and information about the two artists' exhibition Encounter, which happened in June 2023, can be found here. For more information about other titles from Pace Publishing, visit here; please visit the Pace Gallery’s website here for more information about past, current, and future exhibits. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too.
