Saraz Sze: Public Art Fund Talk May 2, 2006

Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has become internationally renowned for her delicate and dazzling assemblages of familiar household objects, construction materials, hardware, and other assorted everyday things. Her 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 composes installations and sculptures that dwell in gallery corners, hang on walls, and sometimes even burrow underground or creep out windows. Each work is made of thousands of objects, pieced together with precision and formal ingenuity. Architecture and the city are at the heart of the works, with their intricate geometries, dizzying engineering, recurring patterns, and frequent use of moving parts or running water. Her constructions resemble miniature galaxies, artificial ecosystems, or visionary civilizations in which organization and chaos keep one another in check. Sze?s talk will coincide with the debut of her new commission by the Public Art Fund, an elaborate subterranean installation at Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park.

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