Pace Gallery naugurates new West Coast flagship in Los Angeles with Julian Schnabel exhibition
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Pace Gallery naugurates new West Coast flagship in Los Angeles with Julian Schnabel exhibition
Julian Schnabel: For Esmé – With Love and Squalor, April 9 – May 21. 1201 S. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90019. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.



LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pace Gallery is presenting the inaugural exhibition of its new West Coast flagship in Los Angeles, For Esmé – with Love and Squalor, featuring 13 new velvet paintings and a large-scale bronze sculpture by the artist Julian Schnabel.

Since the late 1970s, Schnabel’s experimental practice and use of unconventional materials has invented a new kind of painting. In 1990, at the time of the acquisition of Schnabel’s four paintings Los Patos del Buen Retiro for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, then director María de Corral wrote, “...what really interests me is that nothing gives the impression of being fixed or closed off. Instead, all of the elements seem to be in a permanent state of flux and one’s perception of them is so arbitrary that all interpretations end up being equally valid.”

The title of the artist’s exhibition at Pace in Los Angeles is derived from J.D. Salinger’s short story “For Esmé – with Love and Squalor,” which Schnabel also named his four-month-old daughter. Set in Devon, England in 1944, the story recounts the chance meeting of an American soldier, who is going off to war, and a 13-year-old girl named Esmé. In the second part of the story, written in the third person, the soldier, Sergeant X, is experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a military hospital. After receiving a package from Esmé containing her father’s watch—a Royal Air Force flyer who died in the war— Sergeant X reconsiders his decision to commit suicide. Esmé’s generosity of spirit, her gift as promised to Sergeant X in exchange for a story with lots of love and squalor, is the kind of hope needed in times of war and unrest. Schnabel’s exhibition manifests the need for optimism in the face of violence and despair.

Schnabel’s cast silicon bronze sculpture ESMÉ (2020) is the result of reconstituting different sculptures, which is a process he began 40 years ago. Here, Schnabel reconfigures and recasts parts of previous forms of other sculptures, a large-scale work that accumulatively functions like a memory of a crucifixion. It speaks to Goya’s etchings The Disasters of War, body parts hanging on trees, a contemplation of human suffering. It will be presented in the gallery’s enclosed courtyard, facing the velvet paintings inside—somber yet colorful, gossamer yet cathartic, ultimately optimistic, too. The paintings and the sculpture reflect on a moment of turmoil and at the same time ascension.

Julian Schnabel (b. 1951, Brooklyn) is known for his multidisciplinary body of work that extends beyond painting to include sculpture, film, architecture, and design. His use of preexisting materials not traditionally used in artmaking, varied painting surfaces, and unconventional modes of construction were pivotal in the reemergence of painting in the United States, positioning him as a vanguard among artists of his generation. Appropriating media and referents from the past and present, Schnabel has maintained an innovative practice, never restricting himself to an established style.










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