Sarah Sze
dal 1/5/2006 al 21/10/2006
Segnalato da
1/5/2006
Sarah Sze
Central Park, New York
The sculpture resembles the white brick apartment that stands on the opposite corner across Fifth Avenue. Although it is in pristine condition, the structure seems to have sunk into the ground or perhaps slowly surfaced like an archeological relic. Through the building's windows, viewers can see an interior vista extending several feet below street level.
Corner Plot
Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze's signature sculptural aesthetic has become one of the most iconic in contemporary art today. Working in a manner that could be called space-specific, Sze uses assorted everyday things to compose installations and sculptures that dwell in gallery corners, hang on walls, and sometimes even burrow underground or creep out of windows. Each work is made of hundreds of objects, pieced together with precision and formal ingenuity. Her constructions resemble miniature galaxies, artificial microcosms, or visionary civilizations in which order and chaos keep one another in check.
Sze's Public Art Fund commission Corner Plot unites the artist's delicate and dazzling assemblages with her ongoing interest in architecture and the urban environment. The sculpture resembles the white brick apartment that stands on the opposite corner across Fifth Avenue. Although it is in pristine condition, the structure seems to have sunk into the ground or perhaps slowly surfaced like an archeological relic. Through the building's windows, viewers can see an interior vista extending several feet below street level.
This underground cavity seems to be abandoned, yet a handful of clues remain as to the nature of the space: there is an illuminated light fixture on the ceiling, light switches and electrical outlets on the wall, as well as bookshelves and a ladder. The majority of the room is filled by a variety of objects that have colonized it from within: a tree, socks, an alarm clock, water bottles, vitamins, a reading lamp, salt, a scale, a wrench, an orchid, and many other things. This swirling, miniature ecosystem appears to descend into a vortex or grow up from the depths like barnacles or crystals, as if the objects have succumbed to some sort of natural process or force.
Sponsorship
Sponsored by Bloomberg.
Additional support ConEdison.
Corner Plot is a project of the Public Art Fund program In the Public Realm, which is supported by National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The Greenwall Foundation; The Silverweed Foundation; and friends of the Public Art Fund.
Corner Plot is courtesy of Sarah Sze and Marianne Boesky Gallery.
This exhibition is made possible through the cooperation of the City of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor; Patricia E. Harris, First Deputy Mayor; Department of Parks & Recreation, Adrian Benepe, Commissioner; and Department of Cultural Affairs, Kate D. Levin, Commissioner.
Location
Corner Plot is on view at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to Central Park.
Subways: N, R to Fifth Avenue; 4, 5, 6 to 59th Street/Lexington Avenue.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Central Park
Fifth Avenue/60th Street - New York
Admission free