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The Letting Go
Sarah Sze (American, born in 1969)
2002
Medium/Technique
Mixed media. Site specific installation.
Dimensions
Site specific installation.
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burke, Katherine R. Kirk and Malcolm L. Gefter, the Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Fund, Rachel and David Fine and The Fine Family Foundation, Audrey and Jim Foster, the Linde Family Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hale, an anonymous donor, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Thorne and Marlene and David Persky
Accession Number2003.341
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsMixed media
Sze is internationally acclaimed for her extraordinary, site-specific sculptures constructed from materials that are both familiar and surprising. She is the second artist to participate in the RSVPmfa series, in which the Museum invites artists to respond to and work among its collections, architecture, and landscape in order to acknowledge that art today often extends beyond traditional gallery walls.
Delicate gestures and an explosion of natural and artificial details carry the viewer through the work, teasing or commanding undivided attention before sweeping into mid-air in one direction and to the floor in another. Unexpected, jittery movement-the result of actual moving parts-is found in details throughout the piece.
Delicate gestures and an explosion of natural and artificial details carry the viewer through the work, teasing or commanding undivided attention before sweeping into mid-air in one direction and to the floor in another. Unexpected, jittery movement-the result of actual moving parts-is found in details throughout the piece.
ProvenanceThe artist; with Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; gift to MFA, Boston, September 17, 2003
CopyrightReproduced with permission.