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
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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.
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They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
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Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
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This will function not as a bell tower, but as a vertical structure that collects the buildings. It's open and people will gather and walk around.
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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.
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The subject of the work is your experience, your walking,
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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.
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I pointed out the window and said I would put a 40-foot tall piece right there. I wasn't even 30 yet.
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Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
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I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
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Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
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I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
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I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
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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.