[robo]

As a collector of prints, I am loving this series of six connected pieces by New York artist Sarah Sze and thought I'd post here to see what you guys think of them.

She made these in collaboration with LeRoy Neiman Centre for Print Studies (full info about the collab here). They expand on her sculptural work, which is often about connecting and categorising different objects by colour or building complex systems of cameras and screens. Here she has broken down a typical eye test into different colours and patterns, some making the "2" more obvious, and some much less so. It's an eye test that is no longer an eye test, and has become about the process of seeing, memory and pattern recognition.

She currently has a show at Foundation Cartier, Paris (where Damian Hirst's cherry blossom paintings will be the next show) and has shown in loads of international galleries inlcuding MOMA, NY and the The Serpentine Gallery, London, the Whitney, Venice Bienalle, etc. Her UK gallery is Victoria Miro, same as Grayson Perry, Yayoi Kusama, etc.

Not selling them or anything - I just bought them for myself!

Here's her web site:
www.sarahsze.com

[overend]

Dec 21, 2020 14:14:09 GMT 1 robo said:

As a collector of prints, I am loving this series of six connected pieces by New York artist Sarah Sze and thought I'd post here to see what you guys think of them.

She made these in collaboration with LeRoy Neiman Centre for Print Studies (full info about the collab here). They expand on her sculptural work, which is often about connecting and categorising different objects by colour or building complex systems of cameras and screens. Here she has broken down a typical eye test into different colours and patterns, some making the "2" more obvious, and some much less so. It's an eye test that is no longer an eye test, and has become about the process of seeing, memory and pattern recognition.

She currently has a show at Foundation Cartier, Paris (where Damian Hirst's cherry blossom paintings will be the next show) and has shown in loads of international galleries inlcuding MOMA, NY and the The Serpentine Gallery, London, the Whitney, Venice Bienalle, etc. Her UK gallery is Victoria Miro, same as Grayson Perry, Yayoi Kusama, etc.

Not selling them or anything - I just bought them for myself!

Here's her web site:
www.sarahsze.com

My thoughts are that Beejoir already did this and did it better.

[robo]

Did Bejoir do it before 2011?

[mrizzle]

Dec 21, 2020 14:32:51 GMT 1 robo said:

Did Bejoir do it before 2011?

In 2011 from what I can tell...

urbanartassociation.com/thread/88520/beejoir-colour-money-prints

They are VERY similar.

[rbt]

Great artist. Here's another available print: hausderkunst.de/en/explore/editions/point-for-point

[nobokov]

She's a wonderful artist. Those prints are really of an older style but you can still sort of see in there the concepts that she's taken to a whole other level in her current works.

That older set of prints seem to be playing with dimensionality using all of the images, but the newer work seemingly reflects her realization that painting and printmaking can be sculptural rather than flat. So now, imo, in a single work she can explode out that dimensionality and really let things fly rather than needing a series of images to accomplish that.

[robo]

Dec 21, 2020 15:31:17 GMT 1 mrizzle said:

Dec 21, 2020 14:32:51 GMT 1 robo said:

Did Bejoir do it before 2011?

In 2011 from what I can tell...

urbanartassociation.com/thread/88520/beejoir-colour-money-prints

They are VERY similar.

I'd say that they're completely different artworks by completely different artists; with only a cursory similarity. Have a look at what Sarah Sze does and why on my links above to see why.

[artylang]

she puts on some excellent shows that really must be experienced to be appreciated.

loved this show. cant believe it was 4 years ago already.

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibitions/18/

[robo]

Dec 21, 2020 23:51:14 GMT 1 artylang said:

she puts on some excellent shows that really must be experienced to be appreciated.

loved this show. cant believe it was 4 years ago already.

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibitions/18/

Thanks for that!

I saw her solo show at Serpentine and two at Victoria Miro, also she had a lovely piece (strung hammock) at the Frieze outdoor show a couple of years ago. Pieces of hers crop up in other shows and galleries too (from MOMA to othes) and are always stunning. 

And yeah, for her sculptural installations it's all about being there in the moment. Also they're almost impossible to capture with photography or film - you need to be in the 3D space.

[My Name is Frank]

The second from right is an exact replica of the Ishihara colour blindness test. As such I think these are working together to say something, perhaps that our view on the world needs to be more nuanced than we are trained to see things and that sometimes, we'll never be able to see what others can. That we should embrace differences and not rule them out, just because we can't see them.

There are two prints on there where I cannot see the 2, perhaps others can to validate the thinking. I like it, good concept.

[tab1]

Dec 22, 2020 13:21:30 GMT 1 god’s ultimate noise said:

Loved 3D's (he's colourblind) 'How To Sneak A Bomb Onto The South Bank' piece at Cans Festival in 2008.

Looks like whale sperm under a microscope

[robo]

Dec 22, 2020 11:36:24 GMT 1 My Name is Frank said:

The second from right is an exact replica of the Ishihara colour blindness test. As such I think these are working together to say something, perhaps that our view on the world needs to be more nuanced than we are trained to see things and that sometimes, we'll never be able to see what others can. That we should embrace differences and not rule them out, just because we can't see them.

There are two prints on there where I cannot see the 2, perhaps others can to validate the thinking. I like it, good concept.

I enjoyed your interpretation! She intentionally started with the recognised eye test, but then broke it down in different ways so it relies on different visual responses and eventually only memory. You’re right the black (actually dark blue) print has no way to discern the 2 but you’d see it in there if you knew it was there. The one with scattered dots has the merest hints of the 2 (in the remaining brown) and again its a ghost of a memory. There is also a case for the portfolio with a 7th print, this time just empty circles so not even a trace of colour. (I’ll see if I can find an image.)

[robo]

I found an image of the fantastic porfolio case for these.

[robo]

Dec 21, 2020 16:22:40 GMT 1 nobokov said:

She's a wonderful artist. Those prints are really of an older style but you can still sort of see in there the concepts that she's taken to a whole other level in her current works.

That older set of prints seem to be playing with dimensionality using all of the images, but the newer work seemingly reflects her realization that painting and printmaking can be sculptural rather than flat. So now, imo, in a single work she can explode out that dimensionality and really let things fly rather than needing a series of images to accomplish that.

I agree her work has changed over the last 10 years, but I think her categorisation, treatment of colour, breaking and making of patterns, and interplay between unexpected elements is all here in this portfolio. I think they work beautifully as a set of six with the sense of the artwork itself suspended between them, existing in the space where all six prints meet. I agree they are quite different from the newer works which to me always seem to be like an interesting snapshot of a chaotic system.

[robo]

Dec 21, 2020 16:22:40 GMT 1 nobokov said:

That older set of prints seem to be playing with dimensionality using all of the images.

I've had an idea for hanging this 6-work inter-related print series. I only have one space on the wall, so I am going to hang one of the series, and then randomly change the print every so often. So people seeing the prints over time will get an impression of the entire work. Sometimes it will make sense, sometimes no sense, but over time the impression Sze is trying to create will emerge.

Admittely it's a bit of a Tenet-like approach to hanging this

[robo]

Just stumbled across this fun thread I started back in 2020. Any new Sze fans since then?

[Gentle Mental]

her works are always thoughtful - the exact opposite of Hirst’s spots. As are her installations exact opposite of dead animals in formaldehyde.

[John The Badgers]

Sept 12, 2023 22:04:53 GMT 1 robo said:

Just stumbled across this fun thread I started back in 2020. Any new Sze fans since then?

Thanks for resurrecting the thread Robo.

Not seen it before, or knew about this artist, but certainly someone I would like to learn a bit more about. From what's been posted, looks really interesting.

Glad I logged on now. 

[robo]

Sept 13, 2023 18:28:03 GMT 1 John The Badgers said:

Sept 12, 2023 22:04:53 GMT 1 robo said:

Just stumbled across this fun thread I started back in 2020. Any new Sze fans since then?

Thanks for resurrecting the thread Robo.

Not seen it before, or knew about this artist, but certainly someone I would like to learn a bit more about. From what's been posted, looks really interesting.

Glad I logged on now. 

Definitely worth checking her out where you can. Her excellent Artangel collaboration in Pekham Rye train station was her latest project I think. 

[robo]

Last few days…

www.artangel.org.uk/project/sarah-sze/