Pace London’s new exhibition celebrates the artist’s new work.

As if to celebrate the arrival of the sun this June, Pace London is mounting an exhibition of new works by multifaceted artist and designer Ms Nathalie Du Pasquier, a woman perhaps best known for her wildly colourful, densely patterned furniture and textile creations for Mr Ettore Sottsass’ postmodern design collective the Memphis Group.

From time to time will exhibit more than 50 old, new and previously unseen painted pieces by Ms Du Pasquier, whose iconic 1980s designs are currently undergoing a revival, but whose artworks are lesser-known. Works featured vary from what Ms Du Pasquier describes as “traditional still life representing abstract constructions” to “abstract paintings done in the past two years”. “What I want to show in From time to time is this continuous shift from one position to another,” she says. “It is in that movement that I recharge the dynamo.”

According to Ms Tamara Corm, curator and director of Pace London, the time couldn’t be riper for the show. “This is a crucial moment when the definition of art is expanding again,” she says. “Du Pasquier has been quietly painting, even though she [is known as] a founder of Memphis,” says Ms Corm. “It’s only now that people are looking beyond her design practice.”

Of course, whether or not you’re familiar with Ms Du Pasquier’s back catalogue, these works speak for themselves. In pieces such as those of her “Untitled” series, Ms Du Pasquier exhibits an ability to remind us of the small but intense pleasures to be found in relationships between shape and colour. Her work glows – fizzes, even – with a rhythm and joy that she’s developed into her own, idiosyncratic and instantly recognisable visual language. “Nathalie’s career is remarkable, her works are exceptional – there is a momentum for her talent now,” says Ms Corm. “Du Pasquier’s references recall Giorgio Morandi and Le Corbusier’s abstract compositions of utopian worlds. It’s an honour to present an exhibition of both existing and new works in London and look at her influence on a younger generation of artists.”

Ms Nathalie Du Pasquier’s From time to time will be exhibited at London’s Pace Gallery from 27 June to 29 July 2017.

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