Sarah Sze Sculpture ‘Fallen Sky’ Lands at Storm King

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Sarah Sze is creating an 11-metre-wide concave sculpture to capture a pool of reflected sky in the dirt at Storm King Art Center.

The work, entitled Fallen Sky, is made up of 132 individual elements with surfaces of mirror-polished stainless steel. The form’s shape was determined by a process of erosion.

’Fallen Sky shares with other works in Storm King’s collection a grand scale and a union with nature, while also moving in a new and specific direction: toward ethereality and a deep responsiveness to subtle environmental change,’ said Nora Lawrence, Senior Curator at Storm King.

Fallen Sky will join Storm King’s permanent collection, which also includes works by Maya Lin, Andy Goldsworthy, Isamu Noguchi, and Richard Serra, when it goes on view from 26 June.

In addition to Fallen Sky, Sze is creating a 15-metre-long multimedia installation entitled Fifth Season that will show in the Storm King’s Museum Building through 8 November.

Sze painted the changing light in the gallery and used time-lapse cameras to record it. The finished installation will combine the paintings, projections of the time-lapse video, and the natural light coming through the gallery’s windows.

‘The works reflect on the relationship of the human figure to nature as one that is fragile, in flux, and deeply intertwined,’ Sze said.

Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. She is represented by Gagosian, Victoria Miro, and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. —[O]

Main image: Sarah Sze, Fallen Sky (in progress) (2021). Copyright Sarah Sze Studio. Courtesy Storm King Art Center.