Richard Serra Boeken

This book documents the creation of Richard Serra's sculpture "La Mormaire," from the first steps at the steel foundry to final installation in the park of the chateau La Mormaire near Paris.

In this volume, four distinct works by the important American sculptor Richard Serra are linked by a common each is based on the relationship between the viewer and a horizontal or planar elevation on eye level. Elevations, Repetitions is a complex of 16 elements of different heights; Equal Weights and Measures is composed of six equal blocks of forged steel, rotated such that it's difficult to confirm that sameness. No Relief consists of two 60-foot, six-inch-thick horizontal slabs flush to the wall on opposite sides of a narrow room, compressing the elongated space. And Round is a forged steel work with a diameter of 84 inches and a weight of 50 tons, set on an unnerving slope. Serra's other recent projects include an eight-part permanent installation at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and a Spring 2007 survey at The Museum of Modern Art.

This major publication catalogues all of Richard Serra's sculpture of the last thirteen years, presenting extensive photographic documentation of his site-specific sculpture, as well as an important critical text and an interview with the artist.

Famed for his works of physicality compounded by breathtaking size and weight, Richard Serra is one of the artists at the forefront of contemporary sculpture. He has exhibited extensively throughout the world and has created numerous permanent site-specific sculptures in public and private venues. This book accompanies Serra's sculpture project Dirk's Pod , one of the artist's major site-specific works realised in the last few years, and conceived for the Novartis Campus in Basel/Switzerland. Serra dedicated this sculpture to his friend of many years, the photographer Dirk Reinartz who died in Spring 2004. Reinartz had documented the entire production process of the sculptural elements in a series of magnificent photographs included in this book. Installation photographs and views of the finished sculpture were made by Nic Tenwiggenhorn.

Richard Serra's work explores form and matter through his iconic steel sculptures and abstract drawings. His unique use of black paintstick conveys optical weight, mirroring the physical presence of his sculptures. The 2022 exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery showcased his largest forged round and inky drawings, inviting personal engagement with his art.

The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work.--Richard Serra

A half-century of adventures in printmaking, from screen prints to etchings, by the great virtuoso of monumental sculpture Richard Serra (born 1938) began making prints as early as 1972. For the past five decades he has consistently pursued the myriad possibilities of printmaking and created a graphic oeuvre as concentrated as it is rich and diverse. Even if the relationship between Serra's prints and his sculptural works cannot be denied--the exploration of form, establishing and testing the tension between positive and negative space, the dialogue between two- and three-dimensionality--the prints are an autonomous form of expression with their own themes and creative approaches, such as his innovative use of oil-stick ink to create a surface that both absorbs and reflects light. This catalogue raisonné offers a complete survey of 50 years of Serra's graphic work--including lithographs, screen prints and etchings--and situates it in the broader context of his artistic practice.

Published on the occasion of “Richard Serra: Drawings 2015–2017; Rambles, Composites, Rotterdam Verticals, Rotterdam Horizontals, Rifts” at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, this catalogue is an in-depth look at the artist’s recent drawing practice. The exhibition encompasses more than 70 works from five different series, “Rambles,” “Composites,” “Rifts,” “Rotterdam Horizontals,” and “Rotterdam Verticals,” many of which have never been seen before publicly, as well as a selection of his notebooks and films. Examining the ways properties inherent to sculpture are brought onto paper, the drawings are epistemological adjuncts to Serra’s lifelong sculptural explorations. Designed by McCall Associates in close collaboration with the artist, Drawings 2015–2017 features new scholarship by art historian Neil Cox and exhibition curator Francesco Stocchi, a chronology of the drawings by curator Michelle White, as well as a historical text by Albert Camus selected by Serra. This book introduces readers to Serra’s most recent series and reaffirms his innovation and contribution to the practice of drawing. Co-published with Gagosian Gallery