![]() ![]() These site-specific works manifest the same intense physicality as his earlier output, but at an astoundingly massive scale. Serra's later career has focused on elliptical forms whose steel surface is intended to change color and texture when exposed to the weather. Examples of this practice include installations of thrown molten lead that use architectural corners as a mold, or metal plates and poles held in place by their own weight. Serra's work took abstract and invisible properties such as weight, balance, pressure, and gravity - all of which are traditionally associated with sculpture - and made them visible and visceral. Serra quickly rose to prominence in a climate where artists were reexamining Minimalism's static formal qualities in favor of a more analytical approach to process and materials. It was there that he began making art from industrial materials, especially metal. The exhibition will focus on Serra’s Prop sculptures, which the artist first began to explore in 1968-69. Carlos Valladares explores a selection of these works. Richard Serra (MoCA, Los Angeles, 1998) Van de Weghe Fine Art is pleased to announce an historical exhibition of important works by Richard Serra. After receiving an advanced degree in fine arts from Yale, he moved to New York in 1966. For eleven years, from 1968 to 1979, Richard Serra created a collection of films and videos that felt out the uncharted phenomenological boundaries of the medium. ![]() Serra studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked in steel mills in the East Bay to support himself. He has written about the formative experience of watching the launching of the huge steel tankers, in which balance and buoyancy were dramatically tested. Among the most formally elegant and technically complex works of Serra's oeuvre, this sculpture took him two-and-a-half years to develop. A native of San Francisco, Richard Serra grew up visiting the Marine shipyards where his father worked as a pipe fitter. Band (2006) may qualify as Richard Serra's magnum opus, representing the fullest expression of the formal vocabulary proffered by his monumental steel arcs and torqued ellipses of the 1980s and 1990s. ![]()
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