Richard Serra
Richard Serra
Richard Serrais an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth2 November 1939
CountryUnited States of America
factor feathers seem weight
The weight doesn't seem to be a factor because you don't sense the weight. They look like big feathers or something, big blades.
american-sculptor basically close eyes material potential site terms walk
But basically I try to investigate the site in terms of its potential for interfacing some material so that if I close my eyes I can walk the land.
piece pointed tall window
I pointed out the window and said I would put a 40-foot tall piece right there. I wasn't even 30 yet.
subject work
The subject of the work is your experience, your walking,
breaking density early effect gravity great language lasting lets meaning music power prevents pushed sound tempo word work
Steve's early work had a lasting effect on me. The density and the gravity of the sound was so great it prevents recollection. The power of Steve's music has to do with its sound. Tempo counts, and language is pushed to the breaking point, where the meaning of the word is obliterated and lets the music out.
unbearable weight lightness
Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
determination art people
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.
trying landscape formal
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
ideas architecture sculptors
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
axes perception sculpture
Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.
sea hands capes
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
lunch firsts advertising
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
work-out
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
museum piece pieces various walking
The piece is predicated on walking and moving, anticipation and reflection, through these various pieces and through the museum as a whole.