Pace Los Angeles Group Exhibition: Monsters in Contemporary Art 💀

😈 Pace Gallery in Los Angeles is presenting a major group exhibition titled The Monster , curated by Pace artist Robert Nava. It brings together paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by a diverse group of artists from different generations, both within and outside the gallery, including Nava himself. 🤖 The exhibition draws partial inspiration from Mary Shelley's classic science fiction novel *Frankenstein*, organized in collaboration with Pace's Chief Curator Oliver Shultz. It focuses on the grotesque and horrifying bodies in contemporary art and the fictional imaginings of freaks—creatures that are not ordinary monsters from real life but rather monsters of fantasy, childhood, mythological beasts, and Invisible creatures from the unconscious. These "monsters" are pre-images, immature nightmares, and beings that are neither human nor animal, possessing a power that is both terrifying and fascinating. 🥩 The show is led by a selection of works by Paul Thek and includes pieces by significant 20th and 21st-century artists such as Huma Bhabha, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Thomas Houseago, Rashid Johnson, Li Hei Di, Robert Longo, Tala Madani, Paul McCarthy, Ugo Rondinone, Peter Saul, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith. 🤡 Many of the artists in the exhibition have influenced Nava's work. These pieces employ a bizarre and grotesque artistic vocabulary, with numerous figures being imagined as Intangiblemonsters. Though they are unsettling, they subtly inspire us—ultimately, monsters might be the most human creatures of all. The Monster: Curated by Robert Nava 📅 February 1, 2025 – March 22, 2025 🇺🇸 Pace Gallery · Los Angeles 📍 1201 S La Brea Avenue 🕘 Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00-18:00 #PaceGallery #RobertNava #ContemporaryArt #LosAngelesExhibitions #Artists #Monsters