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
subject work
The subject of the work is your experience, your walking,
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.
bell collects function gather open people structure vertical walk
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.
american-sculptor decided
They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
american-sculptor deciding taboo terms
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
play clouds path
But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
work-out
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
home bay-area coming-back
The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
book masters ifs
The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
lunch firsts advertising
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.