Joseph Pace is an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born in Morbegno, Italy in 1959. Pace’s ‘MIDAS’ sculpture serie is renowned for its characteristic bijoux have become signature symbols of his creativity. He has followed legal, literary, social and psychoanalytical studies at the University of Paris La Sorbonne, at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the Roma Tre University. 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.