Sabine Moritz

I am always thinking about time. In my studio, I try to suspend it.
—Sabine Moritz

Gagosian is pleased to announce August, an exhibition of new large-scale paintings and works on paper by Sabine Moritz at the gallery in Rome. This is the artist’s first exhibition with Gagosian and her first in Italy.

Moritz’s body of paintings, drawings, and prints represents a succession of suspended moments, juxtaposing interpretations of the artist’s immediate surroundings and the natural world with, in her previous work, deconstructed documentary images, and, in more recent paintings, a narrative approach enhanced by the paintings’ broad horizontal format. Adapting and repurposing a catalogue of symbolic and abstract motifs, she ponders the mercurial dynamics of transience and decay. Her works enhance our sensitivity to the passage of time, locating personal experience within shared narratives.

Since 2015, Moritz has worked increasingly in an abstract mode, producing improvised paintings and drawings that she dubs “psychological landscapes.” In these, she addresses her enduring themes of recollection and history in a consciously ambiguous manner inspired by perceptual processes. Hunting for primal sensory experience, she avoids preliminary sketching, confronting the viewer with a dialogue between color and gesture.