In the 1980s Pace worked in Rome and Paris where, in the mid-1980s, he founded "Le Filtranisme" a
neo-existencialist philosophical and
artistic current witch has an optic close to
Renaissance and an anthropocosmic vision. Inspired by sources as diverse as fashion, history,
electronic music and
decorative arts, Pace uses different techniques (such as painting,
assemblage, sculpture, electronic
engravings, photography) influenced by the
iconography of
mass society, philosophy and
psychoanalysis. Also
assembling objects such as
costume jewellery or
recycled materials such as wood, metals or frosted glass of
refrigerators shelves, Pace above all uses painting as his favorite medium. During the 1980s Parisian period, he befriends the Brazilian artist
Sergio Valle Duarte. and the bilingual writer
Albert Russo. In the summer of 1990 meaningful is the encounter between the
sociologist Kurt Heinrich Wolff about the
epistemological "surrender-and-catch"
concepts that changed the Pace work from
figurative painting to the
abstract expressionism. His work gives an artistic and intellectual pathway with which Pace reinterprets many
psychic realities. After the
figurative period (1977–1990), the
abstract period (1990–) is first characterized by the "Periodo dei Legni" (Woods's period 1990–1996) and the "Factor C" studies (1997) and subsequently by the still in progress series, "IDM" (Unshakableness of the Memory, 2000–) and "ATONS" (dedicated to the
techno and
electronic music, 2005–). Pace is also working on "ENGRAVING" (printmakings elaborate with computer) and "MIDAS", the sculptures/assemblages of jewellery. From 1996 to 2008, Pace worked as a university teaching assistant of
Sociology of knowledge and
Art, and
History of sociology at the Faculty of
Sociology of the
Sapienza University of Rome. == Exhibitions (selection) ==