Richard Serra ( born Richard Serra ; born November 2, 1939 , San Francisco ) is a major contemporary American sculptor. He also worked in the field of cinema and video art .
| Richard Serra | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Genre | sculpture , video art |
| Study | University of California, Berkeley University of California, Santa Barbara Yale university |
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Life and work
Richard Serra first studied at the University of California , Berkeley and Santa Barbara (1957-1961), majoring in English literature, and graduated with a bachelor of literature. Then for some time he worked at a steel mill, where he got acquainted with the features of steel as a material. From 1961 to 1964 he studied at Yale University , in New Haven , where he studies art and works as an assistant for the German artist Josef Albers . Among his fellow students were Robert Mangold and Bryce Marden . He graduates from the University of R. Serra with a Master of Arts.
R. Serra begins his creative career as a minimalist sculptor. The main materials with which contemporary sculptors worked with him were industrial raw materials, for example, steel, lead, rubber, plastic. In 1964, Serra received a scholarship from Yale University and spent a year in Paris , where he met with musician and composer Woody German . In the late 1960s, he began working with metal. After returning to New York, Serra works as a furniture packer to earn a living. At this time, he met with such masters of minimalism as Robert Smithson , Donald Judd , Carl Andre . His series of works with rubber and neon lamps belong to this creative period.
In 1966, the first solo exhibition of Serra in Rome , in 1968 - an exhibition in Cologne . In 1977, he participated in the exhibition of contemporary art document 6 in Kassel .
From the beginning of the 1970s, the master also began to work in printed graphics , which became his second element. In the 1960s and 1970s, R. Serra was passionate about the art of cinema, trying himself as a director of films. During his stay in Germany , in Hattingen , together with his future wife, Clara Weiegraf (married in 1981), makes the film " Steelmill " ( Steelmill ).
In 1970, Serra lives and works in Japan . The first large sculptural compositions of steel date back to the early 1970s. In 1981, Serra creates one of her most famous steel sculptures, The Tilted Arc , which is a steel blade 36 m long and 3.6 m high . It was installed in New York , but in 1989, after public protests, it was dismantled.
In 2005, the composition “ The Matter of Time ”, consisting of 8 giant steel sculptures, was created by order of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao .
Images
- Sculptures
Fulcrum 1987, 17 meter steel sculpture near Liverpool Street Station in London
Turns of Berlin , steel, 1986
Bramme (for the Ruhr area) , Essen
Literature
- Kunibert Bering: Richard Serra. Skulptur, Zeichnung, Film , 1998, Reimer. ISBN 3-496-01188-2 .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118796267 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Richard Serra
- ↑ Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3