{"id":7654,"date":"2018-08-15T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:55:06","slug":"fred-wilson-at-pace-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/fred-wilson-at-pace-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Wilson Installation at Pace Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Wilson continues to consider African diasporic populations of the Mediterranean in a selection of recent work commissioned for the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Istanbul Biennial, currently on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\">Pace Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea.\u00a0 Uncharacteristically dark-toned Iznik tile walls include the text \u2018Black is Beautiful\u2019 and \u2018Mother Africa\u2019 in elaborate Arabic script while chandeliers combine black Murano glass from Venice with metal elements that evoke Ottoman design.\u00a0 Wilson\u2019s installation merges diverse traditions with dramatic flair and elegance, suggesting complexity in the histories his art investigates. (On view through August 17<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7655\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/fred-wilson-at-pace-gallery-2\/fred_wilson-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7655\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fred_wilson-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Wilson, installation view at Pace Gallery, July 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Wilson continues to consider African diasporic populations of the Mediterranean in a selection of recent work commissioned for the 15th Istanbul Biennial, currently on view at Pace Gallery in Chelsea.\u00a0 Uncharacteristically dark-toned Iznik tile walls include the text \u2018Black is Beautiful\u2019 and \u2018Mother Africa\u2019 in elaborate Arabic script while chandeliers combine black Murano glass &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/fred-wilson-at-pace-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fred Wilson Installation at Pace Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8076,8,8079,6446,117,1819,8077,8078,8080,465,10,16],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-afro-kismet","tag-art","tag-black-is-beautiful","tag-chandelier","tag-chelsea","tag-fred-wilson","tag-istanbul-biennial","tag-iznik-tile","tag-mother-africa","tag-pace-gallery","tag-sculpture","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Zs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12526,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/12526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}