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
thinking people different
I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
thinking people not-interested
I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.
thinking
To see is to think, and to think is to see.
thinking order space
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
thinking mind particular
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
art mean thinking
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.
thinking trying body
Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
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.