July 4, 2008 
Installing Serra
Published: May 22, 2007
Artist's Bio
Born in San Francisco, 1939
Graduated with a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Yale University 
Recent Major Exhibitions Include
Museo Archeologico and Piazza Plebiscito, Naples, Italy (2004)
Permanent installation The Matter of Time, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (inaugurated 2005) www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
The Museum of Modern Art acquired Intersection II in 1998, and Torqued Ellipse IV in 2000. This is the first time MoMA has displayed either work.
For more information on the exhibition, please visit www.moma.org Read excerpts from the AI Interview with Richard Serra: People often say that your work asks many questions, especially about what sculpture might be. That’s one of the functions of art. That’s what artists do; they ask questions. I think that art, to its benefit, is not linear. Artists are always going to ask unexpected questions about art’s definition. Artists will always reframe history or reshape structure. That is the continuous input into the language of art. One can never predict innovation. Younger artists will always revolt against what they’ve been spoon fed and find ways to reinvent. That’s how art remains vital. But you’ve been asking questions about the nature of sculpture for 40 years. Do you feel that you’ve come to understand it yet? No, not at all. I’m not interested in sculpture, per se. Right now, I’m more interested in movement, in time and how the body measures time, and how movement through time affects one’s experience. Sculpture is the vehicle for structuring that experience. How the body moves in step, in stride, in balance informs all my recent work, regardless of its formal disposition. For the full interview, click here
Above: Richard Serra's
Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992) being installed in
the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern
Art in preparation for "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years" (June 3-September 10, 2007). |
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