Artist Spotlight
A peerless bricoleur, Sarah Sze gleans objects and images from worlds both physical and digital, assembling them into complex multimedia installations that prompt microscopic observation while evoking a macroscopic perspective on the infinite. In recent years she has returned to painting—the medium in which she first trained—producing works that translate her processes of sculptural accumulation into the making of collaged paintings that are detailed, dynamic, and highly textural.
Created in response to the covid-19 pandemic, the Artist Spotlight series highlights individual artists, one week at a time, whose exhibitions have been affected by the health crisis. A single artwork by the artist is made available with pricing information for forty-eight hours only.
The work by Sze will be unveiled below on Friday, April 10, at 6am edt. For updates, please contact the gallery at collecting@gagosian.com.
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Photo: courtesy MacArthur Foundation
Sarah Sze: Anything Times Zero Is Zero
Hear Sarah Sze speak about her most recent work, including the panel painting Picture Perfect (Times Zero) and the multimedia installation Plein Air (Times Zero) (both 2020). Discussing the relationship between painting and sculpture in her practice, she explains how she creates structure and its inverse, instability, in her layering of images, putting the viewer in the position of active discovery.
Shortlist
Five Films: Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze writes about five films that live as richly evocative images in her visual memory.
Sarah Sze: Infinite Generation
Louise Neri talks with Sarah Sze about the new primacy of the image in her explorations between and across mediums. They spoke on the occasion of an exhibition of Sze’s work at Gagosian, Rome, comprising collaged panel paintings, a large-scale video installation, and an outdoor sculpture fashioned from a natural boulder.
Sarah Sze: Art That Explores Time and Memory
Join Sarah Sze as she talks about the questions that drive her work. She describes creating immersive experiences that blur the lines between time, memory, and space—and between art and life.
Work in Progress
Sarah Sze: In the Studio
Join Sarah Sze in her studio as she prepares for an exhibition of new work in Rome.
Sarah Sze: Timelapse
Francine Prose ruminates on temporality, fragility, and strength following a visit to Sarah Sze’s exhibition Timelapse at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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In Conversation
Sarah Sze and Lorna Simpson
Moderated by Thelma Golden
Thursday, February 22, 2024, 6–8pm
Shah Garg Foundation, New York
www.shahgargfoundation.org
Join Sarah Sze and fellow artist Lorna Simpson in a conversation moderated by Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, on the occasion of the exhibition Making Their Mark, on view at the Shah Garg Foundation through March 23, 2024. Both artists are included in the exhibition, which showcases the work of more than seventy women artists from the last eight decades, bringing into vibrant relief their intergenerational relationships, formal and material breakthroughs, and historical impact as they aim to rechart art history through their singular, iconic practices.
Sarah Sze, Crisscross, 2021 © Sarah Sze. Photo: Daniel Spizzirri
Artist Talk
Sarah Sze
Saturday, February 3, 2024, 2pm
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
www.nashersculpturecenter.org
Sarah Sze will give a talk in conjunction with the opening of her solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, on view through August 18, 2024. She will discuss her site-specific installations which integrate painting, sculpture, images, sound, and video, and which engage with the surrounding architecture to create intimate systems that reference our rapidly changing world.
Sarah Sze, Times Zero, 2023 (detail) © Sarah Sze
Exhibition
Sarah Sze in
Third Thailand Biennale: The Open World
December 9, 2023–April 30, 2024
Various locations in Chiang Rai, Thailand
www.thailandbiennale.org
The Open World, the third edition of the Thailand Biennale, features a new immersive, site-specific installation by Sarah Sze titled Pictures at an Exhibition, alongside work by more than sixty international and local artists. Curated by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon and Manuporn Luengaram, with artistic directors Rirkrit Tiravanija and Gridthiya Gaweewong, the exhibition is installed across key venues in the northernmost part of the country, Chiang Rai, including art galleries, exhibition halls, museums, temples, and historic sites. The selected works address topical issues such as history, cultural diversity, nature, and ecology.
Sarah Sze, Pictures at an Exhibition, 2023 © Sarah Sze
Museum Exhibitions
On View
Sarah Sze
Through August 18, 2024
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
www.nashersculpturecenter.org
Sarah Sze invites viewers into a progression of site-specific works across three gallery spaces. Integrating painting, sculpture, images, sound, and video with the surrounding architecture, Sze’s new installations create intimate systems that reference our rapidly changing world. The exhibition blurs the boundaries between making and showing, process and product, the digital and material, and questions how objects acquire their meaning.
Sarah Sze, Images That Images Beget, 2023 (detail) © Sarah Sze
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A Dark Hymn
Highlights from the Hill Collection
March 1–April 13, 2024
Hill Art Foundation, New York
hillartfoundation.org
A Dark Hymn celebrates the five-year anniversary of the Hill Art Foundation by examining the collection through the lens of Valentin Bousch’s sixteenth-century stained glass window, The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise (1533), which is permanently installed in the foundation’s Chelsea building. The exhibition places work from the four major categories of the collection—Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, old master paintings, canvases and sculptures by modern masters, and contemporary art—in dialogue with the window. Work by Willem de Kooning, Mark Grotjahn, Albert Oehlen, Ed Ruscha, Rudolf Stingel, Sarah Sze, and Christopher Wool is included.
Installation view, A Dark Hymn: Highlights from the Hill Collection, Hill Art Foundation, New York, March 1–April 13, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Ed Ruscha, © Robert Gober, © Caroline Kent, © Sarah Sze. Photo: Matthew Herrmann
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Making Their Mark
November 2, 2023–March 23, 2024
Shah Garg Foundation, New York
www.shahgargfoundation.org
Making Their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, showcases the works of more than seventy women artists from the last eight decades. The exhibition champions the lives and work of women artists, bringing into vibrant relief their intergenerational relationships, formal and material breakthroughs, and historical impact. Through drawings, mixed media, paintings, sculptures, and textile works, these artists aim to rechart art history through their singular, iconic practices. Work by Carol Bove, Jadé Fadojutimi, Sarah Sze, and Mary Weatherford is included.
Installation view, Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York, November 2, 2023–March 23, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Joan Semmel, © Carol Bove, © Maria Lassnig, © 2024 Dana Schutz, © Cecily Brown
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Sarah Sze
METRONOME
November 3, 2023–February 11, 2024
Officine Grandi Riparazioni Torino, Turin, Italy
ogrtorino.it
METRONOME is an immersive installation by Sarah Sze commissioned and produced jointly by Officine Grandi Riparazioni Torino, Artangel, and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark. The atmospheric construction features cascading lines that emerge from the center of the room to create a mesmerizing model of a fragile world. A multitude of flickering videos illuminate the structure, swirling around the space, conveying the velocity and volatility of life in the age of the smartphone. An earlier iteration of this work was recently on view at Peckham Rye Station, London.
Sarah Sze, METRONOME, 2023, installation view, Officine Grandi Riparazioni Torino, Turin, Italy © Sarah Sze. Photo: Andrea Rossetti