Richard Serra - Talk with Charlie Rose (2007) 2/2

"My work is: mouvement through space." Very inspiring talk during the retrospective of Richard Serras work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York 2007.
Part of the Richard Serra-Playlist (with more talks w. Charlie Rose) here: • Richard Serra: Artist ...

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Serra is right that painting is an old convention and sculpture is just now getting “off the pedestal” and becoming real art as opposed to an imitation of life.

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Charlie seems to lose his cool at the end of the interview when he starts yelling at Serra for not giving him the answers he wants. Serra is a serious artist and a modest man who represents what he does as an “effort,” which seems to make Rose so mad he absolutely splutters. He wants Serra to bare his soul and Serra refuses, which is very satisfying to see, for those of us who are artists ourselves. Delightful.

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Undoubtedly, Richard Serra is one of the most articulate major artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His interviews are a work of art in themselves.

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Serra tended to speak in overly complex sentences with words chosen for their formality and academic abstruseness rather than their communicative power and consequently his words are often poorly chosen and come off as gobbledeegook that is so overworked that it’s off-putting. Rose wisely challenges him on this, as he should have.