Sarah Sze

The High Line

Este é o lugar que mais gosto de NYC. É um parque suspenso que aproveita uma linha férrea desactivada, com 2.53 Km que vai de Gansevoort Street (um quarteirão abaixo da 12th Street - Meatpacking District até à 30th Street-Chelsea). Abriu em 2009 e tem uma vista maravilhosa sobre o rio Hudson, ruas, edifícios...E depois é mesmo um parque para as pessoas o aproveitarem. Tem espreguiçadeiras, cadeiras, bancos e mesas ao longo de todo o percurso. Não há fotografias nem palavras que descrevam a beleza deste parque. Tem também outra coisa curiosa, uma espécie de anfiteatro em madeira sobre uma das ruas para as pessoas "observarem o ambiente". Depois existe a obra de arte mais fotografada da High Line, a peça da artista plástica Sarah Sze "Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat)".

Anfitiatro suspenso com vista para uma rua

Vista sobre uma das ruas do anfiteatro suspenso 

IAC building (Frank Gehry)

Edifícios em Chelsea

Empire State Building visto do High Line

 

"Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat)"

Sarah Sze

"Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat)"

Sarah Sze

Empire State Building visto stravés da peça "Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat)"

Sarah Sze

Vista do High Line

Vista do High Line

Exploring the Creative Process – A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee and Sarah Sze

(Top) Sarah Sze; (Bottom) Siddhartha Mukherjee.

MacArthur Fellow Sarah Sze and Pulitzer-prize-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee are an exceptional couple who have both pursued their professional and creative passions to the top of their respective fields in Art and Science. This evening they are joined by Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society for a wide-ranging and insightful discussion on the creative process.

Sarah Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Chinese and American parents. She was awarded a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and later a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Since the late 1990s she has shown her work in numerous international exhibitions in Kanazawa, Lyon, Venice, Melbourne, and Turin. Her notable solo exhibitions and projects include installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2003, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2002, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 1999. She is a 2003 MacArthur Fellow.  It was recently announced that Sze has been chosen to represent the USA at the 2013 Venice Biennale. 

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a physician and researcher. His book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles inNature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Republic.

Source: Asia Society  New York