NEW YORK, NY.- Pace shared details of its presentations at the 2025 edition of Art Basel Unlimited, which will feature three ambitious large-scale projects by Arlene Shechet, Latifa Echakhch, and Robert Longo. Shechet will present a monumental sculpture from her 2024 Girl Group exhibition at Storm King Art Center in New York, Echakhch will debut a new installation following her 2023 transformation of Basel’s Messeplatz, and Longo—whose solo exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark continues through August 31—will unveil a new multimedia work created specially for the fair.

Arlene Shechet, Midnight (2024)
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Arlene Shechet’s Midnight, the largest of six outdoor sculptures commissioned for her landmark Girl Group exhibition at Storm King Art Center last year, brings her signature experimentations with color, balance, and material to a monumental scale. Appearing to be anchored to the ground at one end and lifting skyward at the other, this welded aluminum work defies gravity, its vivid, hand-mixed orange and pink hues pulsing with energy. Blending digital precision with intuitive, hands-on fabrication, Midnight exemplifies Shechet’s radical approach to large-scale sculpture—one that challenges the medium’s traditions and conventions through bold coloration, surface variation, and a visual language rooted in movement and improvisation.

In May, Storm King announced its acquisition of Bea Blue (2024), a sculpture from the Girl Group series, now on permanent view at the sculpture park. Other acquisitions from the series (all 2024) include Janice by the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa and Rapunzel by Claremont McKenna College in California. Works by Shechet have also recently been acquired by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins in Lisbon; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto; and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal in Quebec.

This July, Shechet—who is currently exhibiting work in the group show Rest/Play on Governors Island in New York and in the ninth edition of the Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale, ARTZUID—will take over the ground-floor galleries of Catskill Art Space in Upstate New York with new and recent sculptures, works on paper, and tapestries.

Latifa Echakhch, Untitled (Tears Fall) (2025)
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Composed of hundreds of nylon threads tipped with small glass spheres, Latifa Echakhch’s new monumental installation Untitled (Tears Fall)—exhibited for the first time at Unlimited—forms a shimmering curtain that cascades from the ceiling. Each thread ends in a string of blue beads suspended at varying heights, creating a dynamic upward burst of color that evokes the moment water hits a surface with force—both falling and rising in a suspended spray. Here, water becomes a metaphor for duality: the rise of hope and ambition mirrored by the pull of sorrow. In Echakhch’s view, beauty can be found even amid collapse. Untitled (Tears Fall) is presented by Pace and kaufmann repetto in collaboration with Dvir Gallery.

Elsewhere in Switzerland, the Musée d’Art du Valais in Sion recently acquired Echakhch’s wall installation Hospitalité (2006), and the work is now on permanent view at the museum.

Robert Longo, We are the Monsters (Four Parts) (2025)
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Robert Longo’s We are the Monsters (Four Parts), created for Unlimited, comprises two new Combines—part of the artist’s series of monumental multimedia installations—a drawing, and a film that together examine a culture of relentless immediacy. Flanking the booth’s entrance, the two new Combines—Untitled (Dog) and Untitled (Wolf)—employ drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture to test the limits of two-dimensional imagery.

Inside the booth, a graphite drawing based on Albrecht Dürer’s The Four Avenging Angels (1498) will be on view, along with Untitled (Image Storm, July 4, 2024 - June 15, 2025), a fast-paced, looped, black-and-white film composed of a year’s worth of imagery drawn from international news. Randomly interrupted by computer-generated pauses, the film offers an immersive experience with no beginning or end—only shifting ways of looking and seeing. We are the Monsters (Four Parts) is presented collaboratively by Pace and Thaddaeus Ropac.

Longo's first full-scale Scandinavian survey is on view at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located 25 miles north of Copenhagen, through August 31, and this fall he will take over Pace's New York flagship this September for a monumental, multi-floor exhibition.