佩斯北京是由美国纽约最具影响力的PaceWildenstein于2008年在北京开设的分属机构，致力于推动亚洲当代艺术的发展，连通中国同国际艺术市场的共荣。佩斯北京坐落于北京798艺术区，上世纪六十年代的锯齿形包豪斯风格建筑占地2200平方米，目前为园内面积最大的空间建筑之一。
佩斯北京总裁冷林先生是中国当代重要艺术评论家、策划人、市场专家，多年来致力于中国现代艺术家的推广以及推动中国艺术品市场的发展。
Pace Beijing was established in 2008 by PaceWildenstein and is located in Beijing’s 798 Art District. The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art in Asia, presenting exhibitions by an international roster of artists. Housed in a 1950s former factory, the gallery is 22,000 square feet.
The President of Pace Beijing, Leng Lin, is a prominent critic, curator and expert of Chinese contemporary art. For many years, Leng has been making invaluable contributions to the promotion and development of Chinese contemporary art world.
首展－－“遭遇”
2008年8月2日，在北京这座城市正经历巨变的同时，佩斯北京的首展“遭遇”隆重开幕。展览汇聚了东西方顶级的艺术家的肖像佳作：安迪•沃霍尔，亚历克斯•卡茨，查克•克洛斯，辛迪•舍曼，乔治•巴泽利茨，乔治•康多，吉恩•米切尔•巴斯奎特，杰夫•孔斯，马林•杜马，理查德•普林斯，蒂姆•艾特尔，方力钧，李松松，刘炜，马六明，祁志龙，村上隆，王广义，杨少斌，奈良美智，岳敏君，张洹，张晓刚等。
过去20年，中国当代艺术市场飞速发展，中国当代艺术家的成就得到了世界的肯定和重视。中国的文化在一个国际化的舞台上生发出了新的文化语境。过去的十年，北京作为中国与世界接轨的窗口，一直致力于推广中国的当代艺术。而如今，这座城市已经能够晋升为凝聚全球文化的中心之一。
“遭遇”展汇集了各式文化力量，以肖像画这一最为敏感的媒介来展现不同文化的深层差异。而肖像画也是中国当代艺术家学习绘画的起点。20世纪80年代初，在中国当代艺术逐渐形成自我文化体系的同时，肖像画作为展现人与飞速发展的社会之间各色关系的最佳图释而受到推崇。
“遭遇”展将东西方最具影响力的一批艺术家的肖像画作品同时呈现在同一空间中，意味着来自不同国家、不同形式艺术的汇集以及多元文化的相遇碰撞与交融，意借此迸发出一种新的力量，也标志着一个新的文化北京的诞生以及引领我们在新的坐标上观照世界。
Pace Beijing’s opening exhibition Encounters occurs amidst the remarkable cultural evolution Beijing is experiencing. It began on August 2, 2008, with the finest international artists such as Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Georg Baselitz, George Condo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Marlene Dumas, Richard Prince, Tim Eitel, Fang Lijun, Li Songsong, Liu Wei, Ma Liuming, Qi Zhilong, Takashi Murakami, Wang Guangyi, Yang Shaobing, Yoshimoto Nara, Yue Minjun, Zhang Huan, and Zhang Xiaogang among others.
In the past 20 years, Chinese contemporary art and its market have developed rapidly. Chinese art, after a long period of limited development, has finally won world-wide recognition for its achievements. The growth of the economy in the past 30 years has also brought China’s long history and culture to the attention of the world. It is as if China and its culture have been reborn, but this time in a global, cultural context. Beijing is at the forefront of the promotion of Chinese culture, and, in turn, has gained a more important and diversified role. For the past 10 years, it has been the city that exports Chinese contemporary culture. Now the city can be a place where the world’s cultures reunite.
Encounters is an assembly of all kinds of cultural power. The exhibition focuses on portraiture as it often reflects the most sensitive parts of various cultures in different eras. In the process of learning art, Chinese contemporary artists began with portraiture. This approach was very different than the traditional Chinese manner of learning art. Since the early 1990s, when Chinese contemporary art was forming its own cultural identity, portraiture has been held in the highest regard because it most easily illustrated the various relationships that exist between man and his rapidly developing society.
With the above discussion as background, to emphasize Beijing’s role as the center of Asia, we have grouped together the Chinese artists and the works of two outstanding, Japanese contemporary artists - Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara - into a larger Asian artists group. The Asian and Western portraits are then intermixed, allowing us to explore their mutual relationship and influence. These influences are not the result of direct referencing; rather, they occurred unexpectedly. Encounters marks the birth of a new cultural Beijing and allows us to explore the world through this city.
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