Sergio García Sánchez’s “Sudden Bathe”
“I needed to re-create the precise second when passersby are caught within the rain,” the Spain-based artist Sergio García Sánchez mentioned about his Central Park cowl for the November 10, 2025, challenge. García Sánchez has lengthy been impressed by Japanese ukiyo-e prints, and right here turned to Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Sudden Bathe Over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake,” from 1857, which was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in 1918. Hiroshige’s dramatic composition contrasting nature and civilization creates a way of motion and immediacy, and sends a shiver down the viewer’s backbone—a sense that García Sánchez additionally tried to seize.
