RICHARD SERRA:
Thinking On Your Feet

DIRECTED BY MARIA ANNA TAPPEINER

“Fascinating!” – New York magazine

"One of the world's greatest living American artists… (his work), without ever betraying its principles or playing to the crowd, has become plainly, inescapably, pleasurable... At the dawn of the 21st century, an era of cyberspace, reproduction and the Internet, no one is doing more to make work that stands for the ancient and mysterious power of the real."
– TIME Magazine

RICHARD SERRA’S MONUMENTAL STEEL SCULPTURES are among the defining works of art of our time. Serra is wonder fully articulate, whether talking about his early paintings, Brancusi’s influence upon him, the historical context in which his work developed, or the public controversies and even hostility his art has engendered. He elucidates how “matter imposes form on form,” the unique qualities of steel, and how a space may move simultaneously in two directions — with a lexicon that includes gravitational vectors, open and closed volume, tectonics, conical sections and torquing elipses. An installation of several immensely heavy steel plates (40 tons each) at the Bilbao Museum highlights this elegant portrait of the art world’s man of steel.

Listen to our podcasts:
Introduction by MoMA’s JANE PANETTA
(Recorded September 2, 2008)

Introduction by DIA Foundation’s LYNNE COOK
(Recorded August 20, 2008)

GERMANY • 2005 • 94 MINUTES
IN ENGLISH & GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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RICHARD SERRA SCULPTURE: 40 YEARS
edited by McShine & Cooke