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FABRICE HYBER
Until 2 June 2013 / Using those already in popular circulation as starting points - found photographs, movies, posters, newspaper illustrations - his paintings naturally inherit the social and political implications of their source material.
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Tilting Planet (2006 / 2007) Detail Image Mixed media 740 x 970 x 122 cms, 291.56 x 382.18 x 48.07 inches Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Copyright: Copyright Sarah Sze Photographer: Nigel Davison
© The Artist
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Tilting Planet (2006 / 2007) Detail Image Mixed media 740 x 970 x 122 cms, 291.56 x 382.18 x 48.07 inches Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Copyright: Copyright Sarah Sze Photographer: Nigel Davison
© The Artist
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Tilting Planet (2006 / 2007) Detail Image Mixed media 740 x 970 x 122 cms, 291.56 x 382.18 x 48.07 inches Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Copyright: Copyright Sarah Sze Photographer: Nigel Davison
© The Artist
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Tilting Planet (2006 / 2007) Detail Image Mixed media 740 x 970 x 122 cms, 291.56 x 382.18 x 48.07 inches Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Copyright: Copyright Sarah Sze Photographer: Nigel Davison
© The Artist
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Tilting Planet (2006 / 2007) Detail Image Mixed media 740 x 970 x 122 cms, 291.56 x 382.18 x 48.07 inches Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Copyright: Copyright Sarah Sze Photographer: Nigel Davison
© The Artist
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Tilting Planet (2006 / 2007) Detail Image Mixed media 740 x 970 x 122 cms, 291.56 x 382.18 x 48.07 inches Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Copyright: Copyright Sarah Sze Photographer: Nigel Davison
© The Artist
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Tilting Planet (2006 / 2007) Detail Image Mixed media 740 x 970 x 122 cms, 291.56 x 382.18 x 48.07 inches Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London Copyright: Copyright Sarah Sze Photographer: Nigel Davison
© The Artist
Sarah Sze
Tilting Planet
10 April 2009 - 31 August 2009
BALTIC presents American Artist, Sarah Sze’s largest UK solo exhibition to date. Tilting Planet is a cluster of sculptural installations each cobbled together out of common disposable items such as water bottles, drawing pins, paper, salt, string, lamps, matchsticks and wire. Sze’s expansive sculptural vocabulary uses these items constructively to precisely build structures that defamiliarise our preconceived ideas of these objects, lending them a new found use and vitality. These cumulative sculptures mould themselves into spaces – spreading ivy-like throughout the gallery.
Additional Information
Sze’s architecturally inspired works are extremely delicate and tower precariously in gravity-defying structures. These spectacular and tactile constructions can be large, complex, and beguiling in scale and composition. Operating almost as an independent ecosystem, the sculptures that comprise Tilting Planet will become a singular topographical terrain, a unique landscape emerging from components of the everyday.
Sze’s work was last seen in the UK at the Liverpool Biennial (2008) and Victoria Miro Gallery, London (2007). In 2004 she participated in the group show State of Play at the Serpentine Gallery and had a solo exhibition at the ICA, London in 1998. This exhibition in the Level 4 gallery in BALTIC will beher largest exhibition in the UK to date.
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