Sarah Sze October 10 2019 Exhibit at Tanya Bonadkar Gallery NYC. Participants Garth Evans, Jock Ireland, Brandt Junceau (video by Maud Bryt).
I don’t think there’s a decisive move from sculpture to painting but it was the paintings that startled me. I thought of the Leonardo painting, the Saint Jerome, up at the Met. It’s an unfinished painting. –Jock Ireland
I think the Leonardo connection is apt. I think the [Sarah Sze] show is really a kind of extension of painting. The question of finish in [Leonardo’s] work: he’s basically set himself an impossible task—and he’s willing to try it again and again. In the [Sarah Sze] installations, I have no feeling of unfinish. –Brandt Junceau
I was going to resist this association with Leonardo, but you’ve obliged me to remember. . . –Garth Evans
I got it in the upstairs installation. I could both see the nightmare, and the sheer kind of manic kind of pleasure. –Garth Evans
Sculpture Forum 
I’ve been thinking of this show again. Two takes from my reading in relation to my take on the sense of overload.
Marshall McLuhan’s concept of the temperature of media: Hot media is filled with data, so is low in participation due to a passive audience, while cool media is providing less data and are high in participation/contemplation by the audience.
Walter Benjamin wrote that the reception of a work in a state of distraction represents a more participatory reception (being absorbed by the work) than one of contemplation (absorbing a work into yourself).
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I am reminded of walking into the Holly Solomon gallery (45 years ago) and seeing a Judy Pfaff installation. Sze seems more technical – so much so as to be overloaded. What happens when the power fails? All the arrangements don’t speak to me. Is this show an emotionally charged space or merely spectacle?
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Nice video!!!
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