Richard Serra: Equal | ARTIST STORIES
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2015
- The Museum of Modern Art recently added Richard Serra's "Equal" to its collection. The 320-ton sculpture is composed of four pairs of precisely forged steel blocks, stacked and arranged in a square. In this short video, Serra describes the material processes and conceptual concerns that shape this ambitious work.
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Richard Serra's work is so impressive. Almost otherworldly. It's a total immersion of space and form. I've seen some of his sculptures while working at MoMA and at the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon. I used to take a ride from Grand Central to Dia Beacon just to see his sculptures on my day off. It was surreal and one of a kind experience. Definitely one of my favorite artists. Rest in peace.
You live on through your works, you will be missed.
Richard Serra's art always commands its own space. Here it looks like the blocks might raise the ceiling!
Incredible process and sculptures. He explaines his story so clearly, very nice video.
I spent a full hour walking around this piece, because it rewards really looking. At all of the colors and textures; patterns and blots; surfaces and edges and meetings and gouges, catching or sinking the light. This is clearly a man who loves his material - it's the impression I got from the equally phenomenal but quite different piece, Emerson, at the Menil in Houston.
Near the end of my appreciation, a young man walked in with his girl, pointed to one of the blocks, and said: "Now this right here, this is a box!" Ah, the people look, but they do not see.
Richard Serra is the Grim Reaper of Art... What a guy...
The virtual denies tactility, it denies our physical presence. Amen.
RIP Richard Serra. we have lost a Titan.
he made a good point on the value of the tactile. sometimes you have touch things
+ramenbo Are you allowed to touch Serra's things?
The artwork in exhibition you mean? Yes, for other things must ask Mr, Sierra... :-)
Not really, but I do it anyway.
Damn! I love this guy!!
Excelent, thanks.
Appreciated your drawings.
beautiful work!!
Master class
RIP Master
So incredible
320-tons sculptures - how do they move this stuff around? where do they find gallery floors that will hold that kind of weight?
Is he becoming in to Philip Johnson?
Richard Serra (1938-2024)
RIP
The virtual denies tactility. 100% 😇
Mass,scale,time.
Touching and feeling? I have never been to a gallery or museum that allowed me to touch or feel anything. I could smell them at a distance. Even grok them compared to my body dimensions. If there was a gross temperature difference, I could feel that. Sculpture in public places allows a tactile and person/body exploration.
Why don't people spend hours staring at say... landfills? Way more experiential richness. I guess it needs a big famous name attached in order to be valuable?
DEP
Love seeing people pretend that there is a deep meaning here. This emperor has no clothes. There are 8 very big and heavy pieces of metal that were put on display in a huge room in a museum. While I admire the feat of architecture and engineering, which is what it took to put these monstrosities there while having a strong enough floor to support them, but beyond that, this is a piece of very expensive soulless kitsch by an artist who was lucky to have his caprice and ego catered to. There are so many artists and installations more deserving of the gigantic room and the expense that it unfortunately took to produce such schlock.
Sorry . I can see art by looking at every anyday item .. but to spend a 1/2 a million dollars in price and installation... on something that is just a steel scap pile is ridiculous... think of all the homeless people they could have helped instead of throwing away that much money on a rusty iron scrap pile...
You can take an old toilet and set it out in your yard and call it art .... doesn't make it worth anything...
This an example of how abstract art can be a rip off... shame
Reminder that his sculptures have killed people by crushing them.
They're metal blocks... that's it.