Sculpture Builder: Richard Serra

  Richard Serra makes sculptures free-stand which objects are held up against the wall. The steel were rolled up and stands by its own. 
He hopes that the sculpture will provide both a public place and a private space for people to gather and experience the narrow, vertical, open column in relation to themselves.
 Richard's works can deduce to the piece cuts into space and the logic of the intervention is apparent  with the props. The relationships between his works and viewers do not seem to be arbitrary. While viewers are walking around inside a spiral, they may deduce artist's plan, feel the elevation and even nothing. Yet Richard's work just brings to bear psychologically on viewers. 

                    

   

                            

                    To Lift. 1967. Vulcanized rubber, 9140 x 2000 x 1524 cm

Promenade, 2008. Weatherproof steel. Five plates, each ca.55 3/4 x 13 feet x 5 inches. Installation in the nave of the Grand Palais, Paris, 2008.

St. John's Rotary Arc, 1980. Weatheproof steel. 12 x 180 feet x 2 1/1 inches. Installation at Holland  Tunnel exit, New York, 1980-88

Richard was hitting lead.

 Richard Serra born 1939

American sculptor, draughtsman and film-maker, born in San Francisco. Studied at the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara) 1957-61 and at Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, 1961-4. Lived in Paris and Italy 1964-6, then settled in New York. Met Eva Hesse, Steve Reich, Judd, Nauman and others. First one-man exhibition at the Galleria La Salita, Rome, 1966. Worked 1966-7 mainly with rubber, including hanging units like thick harness juxtaposed with a tangled network of neon lights. Then turned to floor pieces: a horizontal wooden from with lighted candles, floor sheets in moulded latex rubber, torn and scattered crumpled pieces of sheet lead, and splashed molten lead. Began in 1969 to be primarily concerned with the cutting, propping or stacking of lead sheets, rough timber, etc., to create structures, some very large, supported only by their own weight; emphasis on the process of making and the character of the material. Also made films concerned with process, e.g. Hand catching Lead 1968. Since 1970-1 has made various large-scale exterior and landscape pieces, as well as monumental black drawing in charcoal or paintstick. Lives in New York.