Richard Serra
San Francisco, California 1938 - Orient, New York 2024
New York, 1975 Photo credit Alessandro Panza
Serra's sculptures have a menacing and disturbing look. They are made of very heavy slabs of steel balanced between stability and instability (...). Their fixity seems to be destroyed by the inherent possibility of shifting suddendly and speedly from an instrinsically stable and immobile material to an active and destructive force.
Richard Serra, Belts, 1966-1967. Vulcanized rubber and neon, 182,9 x 762 x 50,8 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, 1991. © 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Erika Barahona Ede ©FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao
Richard Serra, Template, 1967. Vulcanized rubber, dimensions variable, approx. 243,8 x 99,1 x 0,3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, 1991. © 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Richard Serra, Shovel Plate Prop, 1969. Steel, 203 x 213,4 x 81,3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, 1991. © 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo David Heald / The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
Installation Percepciones en transformación. La Collección Panza del Museo Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, November 16, 2000 - February 14, 2001. Richard Serra, Twins: To Tony and Mary Edna, 1972. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, 1991. © 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Erika Barahona Ede ©FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao