Richard Serra Drawing
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A Retrospective
Edited by Gary Garrels, Bernice Rose, and Michelle White; With contributions by Lizzie Borden, Magdalena Dabrowski, Gary Garrels, Bernice Rose, Richard Serra, Richard Shiff, and Michelle White
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As the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international acclaim. Yet even those who have marveled at Serra's intellectually rigorous and large works of sculpture may not be familiar with his equally intriguing drawings. This handsome book brings together for the first time Serra's drawn work, considering the artist's investigation of medium as an activity both independent from and linked to his pioneering sculptural practice.
First working in ink, charcoal, and lithographic crayon on paper, Serra originally used drawing as a means to explore form and perceptual relations between his sculpture and the viewer. Over time, his drawings underwent significant shifts in concept, materials, and scale and became fully realized and autonomous works of art. The grand, bold forms he created with black paintstick in his monumental Installation Drawings were designed to disrupt and complement existent spaces and eventually began to occupy entire rooms. In the late 1980s, Serra explored the tension of weight and gravity through layering, and his most recent work experiments with surface effects, using mesh screens as intermediaries between the gesture and the transfer of pigment to paper.
Distributed for The Menil Collection
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art(04/11/11-08/28/11)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (10/15/11-01/16/12)
The Menil Collection (03/02/12–06/10/12)
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art(04/11/11-08/28/11)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (10/15/11-01/16/12)
The Menil Collection (03/02/12–06/10/12)
Publication Date: June 14, 2011
Publishing Partner: Distributed for The Menil Collection
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