Pace’s Arne Glimcher Helms New Tribeca Gallery 125 Newbury

The space will open next month with an intergenerational group show called Wild Strawberries after the Ingmar Bergman film.

Pace founder Arnie Glimcher will open a new project space in Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood on 30 September.

Located on the corner of Broadway and Walker Street, the 3,900 square-foot project space takes its name from Pace Gallery's first home in Boston.

Six decades after opening that small space on Newbury street in 1960, Glimcher is now the patriarch of a gallery empire with locations in the United States, Asia, and Europe directed by his son, Marc.

'Gallery 125 Newbury is about expanding my own story at the same time, about going full circle, back to the little gallery I once had,' said Arne Glimcher.

He said it meant going 'back to being hands-on in every facet of making shows and working with artists and connecting with the public, which is the part of it that I really love.'

The gallery occupies the former location of Pearl River Mart. It was renovated by Bonetti/Kozerski — the architects behind Pace's eight-story New York flagship in Chelsea.

Gallery 125 Newbury's inaugural show, Wild Strawberries, is inspired by the eponymous Ingmar Bergman film released in 1957. In the film, which is known for its surreal dream sequences, an elderly retired doctor muses on his life's pleasures and shortcomings on a journey from Stockholm to Lund. Glimcher's exhibition reflects his own journey working with the post-60s generation of artists to today's emerging talents.

The exhibition also draws inspiration from the film's opening sequence, a dream in which a faceless figure suddenly collapses into a pile of empty clothes and oozing liquid upon the protagonist's touch.

Some of the works explore abjection and transformation of the body. That includes formless, nightmarish, and visceral representations of the body by Lynda Benglis, Hannah Wilke, and Paul Thek, and disquieting sculptures by Lucas Samaras.

These appear alongside identity and politically-driven sculpture and photography from the 1980s and 1990s by Kiki Smith, David Hammons, and Zhang Huan; and more recent cross-connections of mediums and eras by younger artists like Julie Curtiss, Alex Da Corte, Max Hooper Schneider, Kathleen Ryan, and Shahryar Nashat.

Alongside the artworks, a selection of excerpts from narrative and experimental films, chosen under the guidance of filmmaker Vito Adriaensens, echo the exhibition's thematic sensibilities.

Gallery 125 Newbury aims to produce five thematic exhibitions per year, working with established and emerging artists, only some of whom will be represented by Pace. Arne Glimcher, who will continue to curate exhibitions at Pace as well, will be assisted by Gallery 125 directors Kathleen McDonnell, Talia Rosen, and Oliver Shultz, all of whom are also on the Pace team.

'My father has a strong history of making iconic exhibitions', said Pace Director Marc Glimcher. 'Gallery 125 Newbury offers Arne a space to further explore his inimitable personal vision.' —[O]