Richard Serra Ramble Drawings

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Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075
September 26th - October 24th, 2015

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The Gagosian has presented more than 25 major exhibitions by the artist Richard Serra since 1983, and the gallery recently opened a show in New York focused on his Ramble Drawings. Perhaps most well-known for his large-scale sculptures, these works on paper represent another side of the artist’s oeuvre. Featuring hand-applied fields of black litho crayon, they have a quality not entirely dissimilar from examining one of his CorTen steel pieces up close.

—Gagosian Gallery

Online Feature: Sight Point (for Leo Castelli)

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Earlier in the year I had the chance to revisit the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. When I was last there, Richard Serra’s Sight Point (for Leo Castelli) had been dismantled to make way for improvements to the Museumplein. Not this time though; divesting myself of all the baggage that comes with art history, I had one of the most moving experiences I've ever had with a piece of sculpture, contemplating this gargantuan geometric form with fresh eyes.

—Online Feature: Sight Point (for Leo Castelli)

Richard Serra by Alfred Pacquement

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Hardcover
9.5 x 12 inches
296 pages

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I feel like I could share some exciting new Steidl publication almost every week. The German publisher has been having a banner 2015 so far, with books from Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston, Parks, and Teller. While all of these are photo books, this volume is something for fans of the brutal and humungous works (in both size and scope) of Richard Serra. "Instead of retracing Serra's career chronologically, as is usual in the artist's exhibition catalogues, this book comprises eight thematic chapters that do not aim to investigate all of his work. Rather, this organization facilitates a closer examination of the development of specific bodies of work and thereby a fresh understanding of Serra's overall oeuvre. Each chapter is built around the works shown at the QMA Gallery and Alriwaq Doha, as well as 7, installed in MIA Park in Doha in 2011, and East-West/West-East, installed in 2014 at a site chosen by the artist in the Brouq Nature Reserve near Zekreet."

—Available from Artbook

Richard Serra: Vertical and Horizontal Reversals

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Richard Serra's Vertical and Horizontal Reversals opened at David Zwirner's 537 West 20th Street location in New York on November 6th. Running until December 20th, it is a continuation of the artist's show at Instituto Moreira Salles, which featured 15 Vertical Reversal drawings. This exhibition also includes a series of new, unseen Horizontal Reversals, and is accompanied by a catalogue including new insights from art historian Gordon Hughes.

—David Zwirner

Richard Serra: Drawings for The Courtauld

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Originally scheduled to run until today, this exhibition, at London's Courtauld Gallery in the north wing of Somerset House, will now be open for another week. It comprises 12 drawings created specifically for the show and while the scale of these works does not compare with Serra's iconic sculptures, the dense compositions – produced on stacks of mylar plastic with black litho crayon – are no less innovative or engaging.

—The Courtauld Gallery

Richard Serra – New Sculpture

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7 Plates 6 Angles, 2013
© Richard Serra. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Photograph by Cristiano Mascaro

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Following 2011's highly successful Junction/Cycle exhibition, the Gagosian Galley in New York presents another new body of work from the famed sculptor Richard Serra. New Sculpture – a series of works using weatherproof steel that were produced in 2013 – will close out the year in two of the gallery's New York locations. 7 Plates 6 Angles, Intervals, Grief and Reason (for Walter) and Counterweight 1 and Counterweight 2 will all be shown at the 24th Street location, while a single work Inside Out will be presented at the gallery on 21st Street. A preview of the exhibit begins tonight at 6pm, and will offer the first chance to take in what is bound to be a truly phenomenal new body of work from one of America's greatest modern sculptors.

—New Sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery, New York

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Richard Serra – Early Work

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537 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
April 12th - June 15th, 2013

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Currently on display at David Zwirner's new five-story, 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street in Manhattan, is a range of early Richard Serra works dating from 1966 to 1971. The exhibition focuses on Serra's early process-orientated experimentations in vulcanized rubber, neon and lead as well as his use of steel. Presented alongside the main exhibition are a selection of short films the artist also produced during this period. For anyone with even a passing interest in his work, this exhibition is an unmissable glimpse into Serra's early sculptural output.

—David Zwirner
—NY Times Review

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Richard Serra's Junction / Cycle at the Gagosian

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Two new large scale works by Richard Serra are currently on display at the Gagosian Gallery and well worth an hour or so of your time if you happen to be anywhere close by. Junction / Cycle are both sculptures created in the artists preferred medium of waterproof steel, and in this case the oxidization of the material has turned the sculptures a striking bright orange colour, which offers plenty to those passing through the maze of the pieces themselves. Serra says the sculptures were designed as much with the space between them in mind, as with the form and materials used: "I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct."

—Richard Serra Junction / Cycle

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