Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes

Pace will open a 9,000-square-foot exhibition space in Mayfair in October, solidifying its worldwide network of galleries in New York and Beijing. Located at 6 Burlington Gardens, directly north of the Royal Academy of Art’s Burlington House, Pace’s gallery will occupy the west wing of the building, which is owned by the Royal Academy - and will be renovated by architect and Royal Academician Sir David Chipperfield.

The Mayfair gallery further establishes Pace’s presence in London, which already includes a location at 6-10 Lexington Street in Soho. Led by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, Pace London will extend Pace’s five-decade tradition of presenting both innovative and scholarly exhibitions.

Pace will inaugurate 6 Burlington Gardens in October with Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes, an exhibition juxtaposing Mark Rothko’s late black and grey paintings with Hiroshi Sugimoto’s contemporary photographs of the horizon line where sea meets sky. The exhibition marks the first gallery presentation of Rothko’s work in London in nearly fifty years and continues Pace’s series of exhibitions that explore affinities between artists working across decades and mediums.