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Property from the Collection of Carlos Cisneros RICHARD SERRA (b. 1939) UNTITLED (ON TO THE CORNE...

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Property from the Collection of Carlos Cisneros RICHARD SERRA (b. 1939) UNTITLED (ON TO THE CORNE...
Property from the Collection of Carlos Cisneros
RICHARD SERRA
(b. 1939)
UNTITLED (ON TO THE CORNER)
oil-sticks on forged steel in two parts
40 x 20 x 4 in.
(101.6 x 50.8 x 10.2 cm)
877.4 lb. (398 kg) each
executed in 1985 <p>PROVENANCE
Akira Ikeda Gallery, TOKYO
ExhIBITED
TOKYO, Akira Ikeda Gallery, RICHARD SERRA, September 17-October 26, 1985, no. 5 (illustrated) <p>LITERATURE
E.-G. Güse, ed., RICHARD SERRA, NEW YORK, 1987, pl. 172 (illustrated)
I'm interested in the history of construction, in the way things are assembled and conceived. Sometimes I feel less like a sculptor than like someone interested in construction. When I look at a building, I try to understand its structural logic, where the piers and joints are located, etc. I experience a kind of pleasure in the volumes some architects create. Yet one rarely senses a quality of disjunction in them. Architects use the totality of the volume, they rarely make the space move or twist.
Richard Serra, quoted in an interview by Alfred Pacquement,
RICHARD SERRA, PARIS, 1983
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