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Sarah Sze at Marianne Boesky
Marianne Boesky Gallery
535 W 22nd Street,
2nd Floor
New York NY 10011
open 12 noon to 8pm
Runs 27th October to 18th November 2000
ALEXI WORTH:
"Sarah Sze
is my pick of the week, month, so far year even.
Her earlier installation-agglomerations (for example, the window
piece in the Whitney Biennial) could sometimes seem too determinedly
whimsical, edging towards the cloying. This time, though, they're
more dynamic, stretching and soaring across the airspaces of the
gallery. They're also simpler. Most are essentially a single piece
of furniture - a bureau drawer, for example - capriciously disassembled
and reanimated. Sze owes debts to people like Jessica Stockholder
and Judy Pfaff, even to Robert Rauschenberg and Alexander Calder,
but her work, with its fusion of cartoon surrealism and hardware
store materialism, feels utterly fresh. If you're skeptical about
the connection to Calder, by the way, ask to see the tabletop
piece hidden away in the gallery's offices."
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DAVID COHEN
"I share Alexi Worth's view that we haven't seen
better from Sze yet. I first admired her work at the Fondation
Cartier in Paris where she filled an already exquisite space with
a sculptural exuberance at once funky and precious. But these
pieces at Boesky are both more focused and resolved, and more
wittily interactive with the space. I love in particular the futuristic-cum-comic
strip star-shaped points of impact which puncture the walls. You
can almost hear the word "Whaam" as the indentation occurs. Her
inventiveness is protean, and to my mind she leaves Pfaff and
Stockholder behind in her understanding of the dualism of the
found object as thing-in-itself and pure shape/color: electric
cable, desk lamps, clamps etc. But while at times we can marvel
at the tension between structure and the density of components
out of which it is composed, she loses us in the decorative footnotes,
those prissy, pointless and poorly soldered plastic test tube
things, for instance, clustering and fussing at her edges."
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