Richard Serra
JP and I missed the ginormous (now a word recognized by the O.E.D - w00t!) Richard Serra exhibit by about 16 hours when we were out east for MSA's graduation. Instead we got a bunch of rain. But we both remember the Dia:Beacon exhibit we saw a few years ago fondly and wish we'd made it to MoMa.The nerdy among you saw the Serra segment on the NewsHours last night, the rest of you will have to settle for wikipedia. In a nutshell he works on many materials and tries to create new spaces and forms using an number of simple transformations like "lifting" or "cutting".
To get a completely innappropriate view of him check out his work in Cremaster 3 as "The Architect" pouring vaseline down the Gugenheim spiral.
At any rate. If you visit or live in NYC you should check out the exhibit before the pieces fall on someome and get banned.
Here's a pretty 'arty' description of his work. IT really doesn't suck as much as these guys make it seem. In fact his pieces are pretty incredible.
posted by Jesper @ 9.8.07
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A useful reminder that I need to see that show at the MoMA... like all lengthy exhibitions, you keep thinking you'll get to it next week, and then it's gone. I hope it's not gone.
There are a couple of nice Serra pieces at the Cantor museum on Stanford campus (and a wonderful campus for art and landscape architecture in general -- too much genius is reprsented, Olmstead, Rodin, Calder, Pei, etc.)... also, enjoyed Serra's site-specific installations in the main hall of Gehry's Bilbo Guggenheim (in the body of the fish).
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