| Richard Serra was born 1939 in San Francisco. The proven principle of supports and backs, he expanded on the basic principle of his sculptural work. During this period he developed an own factory grammar, the formal reduction, the active relation to space and the central theme of gravity and balance is based. There are sculptures, the viewer, the critical balance of various forces and experience in large-scale dimensions for physically and mentally tangible figures of his perception.
Since 1971 in addition to large-scale sculptural works, drawings in various techniques. It is a factory complex, which for him synonymous stands next to the sculptural. Elsewhere Serra determines the drawing as the source of his work, also because it give him the freedom, about the basic conditions of his sculptures to be able to think, they work without them. (Kunsthaus Bregenz) |
