Richard Serra

LUIS FELIPE QUISHPE

Early Life and Education
 American sculptor and video artist best know by his work with large-
scale assemblies of sheet metal
 Born on November 2, 1938 in San Francisco, California
 Studied english literature at the University of California at Berkeley in
1957 before he transferred to the University of California at Santa
Barbara where he got his B.A in 1961
 While being in California he supported himself by working on Steel
mills which later would have a strong influence
Sculptures
 His first sculptures were made of non-traditional materials like
fiberglass and rubber
 His early work was abstract and based on processed-based made
from molten lead
 Around 1970 he started to work outdoors with large scale sculptures
 Serra usually makes a small maquette before the sculpture with
small plates at an inch-to-foot ratio
 He has become renowned for his monumental work spread
worldwide with arcs, spirals, and ellipses, that gives the viewer an
altered experience of the space
 His site-specific works challenge the viewer´s perception of their
bodies in relation to the interiors and landscapes
 His work often encourage movement all around his sculptures
To Hurl (1966-67)
Spin Out (1972-73)
Terminal (1977)
Tilted Arc (1981)
Joe (2000)
Snake (2005)
Promenade (2008)
7 (2011)
Video Art and drawings
 Serra´s first film was Hand Catching Lead (1971)
 Made a number of films featuring his predilect art material: Steel
 Since 1971 he has made drawings on Hitomi paper or Belgian
 On his early years he used ink, charcoal and lithographic crayon
 The drawings are not sketches of his sculptures, they come after a
sculpture has been finished, as a form of notating its espacial
relations
Hand Catching Lead (1971)
Railrodad Turnbridge (1976)
Drawings After Circuits (1972)
Slavery (1974)
2007 MoMa, New York
2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco