Pace Live will premiere Fountain II, a new durational performance and installation by Miles Greenberg, which will complement Hermann Nitsch: Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1962–2020 at Pace’s 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York.
Fountain II is a durational work for two performers. Two figures stand in an embrace on a white plinth over a pool of blood-red liquid. The performers' chests and hands appear to be hemorrhaging, continuously tracing rivulets down the surface of the body, the sides of the plinth, and into the pool below. While Fountain I (2022) was a poetic action to make visible what the artist describes as an evocation of the “final stages of heartbreak—when one finally turns one’s entire body inside out to reach a sort of ecstasy,” Fountain II will be its second act; a duet. The Fountain series is inspired by the painting actions of the late Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch.
