Joseph Pace (born 18 November 1959) is an Italian painter and sculptor.
Early life and education
Joseph Pace was born in Morbegno (Lombardy) and raised in Congo-Kinshasa (Africa). Grandson of Camillo Pace, he was introduced to the visual arts by his uncle Antonio Cardile. He also has followed legal, literary, social and psychoanalytical studies at the University of Paris La Sorbonne, at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the Roma Tre University.
Work
In the 1980s Pace worked in Rome and Paris where, in the mid-1980s, he founded "Le Filtranisme" a neo-existencialist philosophical and artistic current witch has an optic close to Renaissance and an anthropocosmic vision.
Inspired by sources as diverse as fashion, history, electronic music and decorative arts, Pace uses different techniques (such as painting, assemblage, sculpture, electronic engravings, photography) influenced by the iconography of mass society, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Also assembling objects such as costume jewellery or recycled materials such as wood, metals or frosted glass of refrigerators shelves, Pace above all uses painting as his favorite medium.
During the 1980s Parisian period, he befriends the Brazilian artist Sergio Valle Duarte. and the bilingual writer Albert Russo. In the summer of 1990 meaningful is the encounter between the sociologist Kurt Heinrich Wolff about the epistemological "surrender-and-catch" concepts that changed the Pace work from figurative painting to the abstract expressionism. His work gives an artistic and intellectual pathway with which Pace reinterprets many psychic realities.
After the figurative period (1977–1990), the abstract period (1990–) is first characterized by the "Periodo dei Legni" (Woods's period 1990–1996) and the "Factor C" studies (1997) and subsequently by the still in progress series, "IDM" (Unshakableness of the Memory, 2000–) and "ATONS" (dedicated to the techno and electronic music, 2005–). Pace is also working on "ENGRAVING" (printmakings elaborate with computer) and "MIDAS", the sculptures/assemblages of jewellery.
From 1996 to 2008, Pace worked as a university teaching assistant of Sociology of knowledge and Art, and History of sociology at the Faculty of Sociology of the Sapienza University of Rome.
Exhibitions (selection)
His solo shows includes the Museum of Art of the Parliament of São Paulo (2010), CRC in São Paulo (2010), Theatro Municipal of Jaguariúna (2011), Forte Sangallo in Nettuno (2011), Museum Boncompagni Ludovisi, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rome (2014), Museum Venanzo Crocetti in Rome (2015), Câmara Municipal de Itapevi (2018), Pantheon, Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres, Polo Museale del Lazio (2018), Biblioteca Storica Nazionale dell'Agricoltura, Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Rome (2019), Câmara Municipal de Itapevi (2020), CRC in São Paulo (2020), Pantheon, Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres, Direzione Musei Statali di Roma, Ministry of Culture, Rome (2021) - Travelling exhibition, Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina, Rome (2021), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Civitavecchia, Polo Museale del Lazio, Ministry of culture (2022), Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Art Museum, Ministry of Culture, Direzione dei Musei Statali della Città di Roma (2022).
His group exhibitions includes the Diocesan Museum of Amalfi (2012), Forte Sangallo in Nettuno (2012), Italian Embassy in Brasilia (2013), Museum Venanzo Crocetti in Rome (2014), Museum Afro Brasil in São Paulo (2014), Florence Biennale (2015), Castello Normanno-Svevo in Bari, Polo Museale della Puglia, Ministry of Cultural Heritage (2019), Copertino Castle, Lecce, Polo Museale della Puglia, Ministry of Cultural Heritage (2019–2020), Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Art Museum, Ministry of Culture, Direzione dei Musei Statali della Città di Roma (2021), Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina (2022).
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References
University of Lorraine, Joseph Pace Biography - Université de Lorraine, Mukanda, Ressources documentaires sur l'Afrique
Museu de Arte do Parlamento de Itapevi 'Emanuel von Lauenstein Massarani', Pinturas a oleo, Catalogo pp. 112, 113, ed. Camara Municipal de Itapevi, 2023, ISBN 9786587812052
Jean-Marc Mayenga, Y a t-il quelqu'un pour sauver le doc?, ed. Books on Demand, July 2023, ISBN 9782322486991
Emanuel von Lauenstein Massarani, Joseph Pace, Ave Crux, Spes Una, ed. Amazon, September 2021, ISBN 9798408396429
Albert Russo, Joseph Pace, His Life, His Work, His Art, ed. Amazon, July 2021, ISBN 9798537964643
Mariastella Margozzi, Libri d'artista. L'arte da leggere (New edition). Catalogo della mostra, Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, 21 Maggio – 17 Ottobre 2021, Roma, ADDA Editore, Bari, June 2021, ISBN 9788867175581
Mariastella Margozzi, Libri d'artista - L'arte da leggere, pp. 142, 143. Catalogo della mostra, Castello Svevo di Bari, giugno-ottobre 2019; Lecce, Castello di Copertino, novembre-dicembre 2019, ADDA Editore, Bari, 2019, ISBN 9788867174669
National Historical Library of Agriculture, Joseph Pace - Sacra Sacrorum - Catalogue, Ministry of Agricultural Policies, Rome, 2019
Pantheon in Rome, Joseph Pace - Sacra Sacrorum - The Sacred of the Sacred Things - Catalogue, Pantheon in Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres, Rome, 2019
Circolo Italiano in São Paulo, Joseph Pace - Dinamismo Vital e Força Cosmica - Comemoração à Data Nacional da Itàlia - Catalogue, Circolo Italiano in São Paulo, São Paulo, 2015
Florence Biennale - Art And The Polis, Catalogue, pp. 49, 50, Fausto Lupetti Editore, 2015, ISBN 9788868741044
Jumeirah Magazine, p. 16, Joseph Pace Filtranisme, January 2015, Dubai, UAE (United Arab Emirates)
Твоя Италия. Выставки в Италии 2015 вторая часть, Joseph Pace (Filtranisme), Museo Venanzo Crocetti с12 по 28 января
ローマ】ローマ郊外でくつろぎの時を クロチェッティ美術館, 酒井 香織 (Museo Crocetti: Joseph Pace Filtranisme)
Museo Venanzo Crocetti, Joseph Pace Filtranisme, Gaby Pern, Roma, January 2015, Italy
Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma, Mariastella Margozzi: Joseph Pace, L'Eva Futura, Roma, December 2014, Italy
Rome, My Sibling, My Empress: The Plebeian, The Trivial, The Sublime, by Albert Russo, pp. 96,98/99, June 2013, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, ISBN 9781490326696
Ambasciata d'Italia a Brasilia, Arte Italo-Brasileira, Catalogue by Attilio De Gasperis, pp. 32,33, Brasilia, June 2013, Brasil
Diario official da Assembleia Legislativa de Sao Paulo, Emanuel von Lauenstein Massarani, 25 March 2013, São Paulo, Brasil
Mariastella Margozzi, Un mondo al quadrato, pp. 2,3, Spazio 88, Roma, 2013, Italy
Istituto de Recupeaçao do Patrimonio Historico, Catalogo Arte Italia-Brasil 2011–2012, Emanuel von Lauenstein Massarani, pp. 158/161, June 2012, São Paulo, Brasil, ISBN 9788561457082
Quattrocchi Lavinio, Una vita raccontata da Joseph Pace, pp. 32,33, Anzio, 2012, Italy