Sergio García Sánchez’s “Sudden Shower”

“I wanted to re-create the exact moment when passersby are caught in the rain,” the Spain-based artist Sergio García Sánchez stated about his Central Terrain guard for the November 10, 2025, factor. García Sánchez has lengthy been impressed via Jap ukiyo-e prints, and right here grew to become to Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake,” from 1857, which used to be obtained via 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 ailing the viewer’s backbone—a sense that García Sánchez additionally attempted to seize.