BOOK:Sarah Sze, Phaidon Publications

The book “Sarah Sze” form Phaidon Publications with essays by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Okwui Enwezor andLaura Hoptman is the first significant monograph on an artist whose sculptures capture the proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life. Sarah Sze employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums. Her work often takes on architectures, transforming space through radical shifts of scale or colonizing overlooked and peripheral spaces.  Initially a painter, Sze develops her installations intuitively, she begins with a minimal cardboard model of the space, “In both drawing and sculpture I’m interested in the depiction of gravity and weightlessness as both an operative and a disorienting force. I’m thinking about floating, sinking, rising, drifting, and the resulting fragility, disorientation, and instability”. In 1999, Sze won the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She was a 2003 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a 2005 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. In 2012, she won the International Association of Art Critics Award for Best Project in a Public Space for her “Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat)” displayed in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood along the High Line. That same year, Sze was the United States’ Representative for the 54th Venice Biennale, an honor she won again in 2013.-Dimitris Lempesis