NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Pace Gallery presents pionier, an exhibition of work by Carsten Nicolai, on view at 545 West 22nd Street through October 22, 2011. The exhibition title, the German word for “pioneer,” refers to the experimental nature of Nicolai’s work, which investigates perception and phenomenological experience. Operating on the borders of art and science, his exhibitions resemble scientific laboratories where calculations and tests are performed to make phenomena usually inaccessible to human senses visible. The exhibition features the U.S. debut of pionier I, an installation consisting of a large parachute inflated by a wind machine for specific increments of time. The resulting interaction between states of stability and instability serves as a metaphor for the ambiguous