'Rip Tide' by Sarah Sze, 2025
From the artist's solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, 2025.
32.5 x 20 Inches
82.5 x 50.8 Centimeters
Original gallery exhibit offset lithograph poster on heavy, gloss fine art paper.
Limited Edition of unknown quantity.
*Note: Excellent original condition.
ABOUT THE ART
Sarah Sze Crystallizes the Mystery of Modernity at Gagosian in Hong Kong
The artist’s meaningful sixth presentation with the revered gallery is currently on view through May 3, and invites viewers to descend into a visceral universe of new, mixed-media paintings and suspended sculptures.
This week in Hong Kong, New York-based artist Sarah Sze celebrates her solo debut in Asia with a kaleidoscopic exhibition at Gagosian. Her meaningful sixth presentation with the revered gallery is currently on view through May 3, and invites viewers to descend into her visceral universe of new, mixed-media paintings and suspended sculptures. Drawing perceptively from the contemporary human experience and a perpetual cyclone of image-making, Sze utilizes her own creative language of organic motifs and materials to crystallize the mystery of modernity. “Images and their authorship are always in flux,” said Sze. “We build, rebuild, and trade images like never before.”
Drawing from her own past explorations and potent memories, Sze orchestrates a delicate yet profound crush of emotion and materiality. Torn paper enhanced by printed images, prismatic tape, and sweeping brush strokes harmonize and collide like a classical-pop fusion. The natural and the digital unfold individually and collectively, seamless and ruptured elements of our strange and beautiful life on earth. One might notice a bird, a seascape, a sunset, or a storm of clouds, pushing through a shimmering technological space, just as we are.
'Rip Tide' (2025) follows the knowing bird through cold and clear blue skies, with glass-like waters below, while a graphic streak of fuschia and orange pulses through the landscape like an electromagnetic wave. 'Forever Now' (2025) is a glittering fantasia of rising mists and glossy seas, besieged by a downpour of cyber flares, as alluring as it is poisonous. Objects and materials seem to play a captivating game of hide and seek with the audience. Nothing is as it seems, in art and in life.
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