Richard Serra, the artist who reinvented the world’s conception of large-scale sculpture, died from pneumonia at his house in Lengthy Island, New York, on Tuesday. A lot has been written in regards to the methods through which Serra, who was 85, reworked the panorama of the artwork world (and, in lots of circumstances, bodily landscapes, from Spain to California to Dallas); his site-specific, typically steel-hewn creations will stay on, and there’s no substitute for seeing certainly one of them in particular person.
Under, discover 5 locations the place you may discover Serra’s work, in all its gargantuan splendor.
The Nasher Sculpture Middle in Dallas, Texas
Photograph: Randy Mallory
My Curves Are Not Mad (2004) is a part of the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Assortment on the Nasher Sculpture Middle. Crafted from Cor-Ten metal plates, the art work weighs over fifty thousand kilos. In an interview with The Guardian in 2008, Serra famous how using curves and slopes had radically modified the way in which his works had been acquired: “Folks reacted to the curves in a method they didn’t to the angles and straight traces,” he mentioned. “They hadn’t seen that earlier than. Modernism was a proper angle; the entire twentieth century was a proper angle.”
Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York
Dia Beacon has a number of of Serra’s smaller works on long-term view throughout 5 galleries, with examples reminiscent of Scatter Piece (1968) and Elevation Wedge (2001) reliably drawing a crowd.
Downtown St. Louis, Missouri
