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Albert Serra, Història de la meva mort (The Story of My Death), 2013, 35 mm, color, sound, 148 minutes. THE BABY-FACED SERRA has sometimes presented himself as a magic child, self-taught and bereft of influences, determined to maintain cinematic purity at all costs. He claims he no longer watches any other films, to avoid “contamination ...
For Speer it is a professional credo to separate taste from ideology. For Hitler, architecture was never a question of taste. The architectural sketches he made in the twenties were mixed in the same book, even on the same page, with sketches of arms, weapons and battleships. For him, architecture was a weapon.
RICHARD SERRA’S TILTED ARC was commissioned by the General Services Administration (GSA) in 1979 as a part of its Art-in-Architecture program. It has been a controversial work since it was installed in 1981 at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, New York. Most recently it was the subject of public hearings held in New York ...
Serra credits Glass with having introduced him to the medium: Glass—who describes his time with Serra in a recent memoir—had worked as a plumber, which gave him experience cutting, bending, and joining lead pipes (in the joining process, melted lead is used to make a seal). 3 Serra insists that Glass’s identification of lead as a potential medium for the artist was a “gift.”
ON “THE MATTER OF TIME”: RICHARD SERRA AT BILBAO. This summer RICHARD SERRA unveiled a major suite of eight sculptures at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, culminating, in effect, a body of work inaugurated with his first Torqued Ellipses nearly a decade ago. For the occasion, art historian HAL FOSTER spoke with the sculptor about his site ...
RICHARD SERRA (1938–2024) By Gordon Hughes. Richard Serra with his 1981 Tilted Arc in Federal Plaza, New York, ca. 1986. Photo: Oliver Morris/Getty Images. MY FRIEND BETSY woke me up with the news. No words, just a text linking to the New York Times announcement: “ Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85.”.
SANTIAGO SERRA. The curator at Kunst-Werke, or KW, Berlin, Klaus Biesenbach, asked to show Lifted Out Wall Leaning Over by 60 Degrees and Held Up by 5 People in the summer of 2000. We discussed how the performance, which deconstructs the gallery and dissects the space, vaguely recalls the work of Gordon Matta-Clark or the physically hard ...
ALBERT OEHLEN. By Eric Banks. ERIC BANKS: One of the things that strikes me about the way you came to artmaking is how incredibly collaborative your work was in the early ’80s. ALBERT OEHLEN: That whole attitude came from feeling very independent, because we were opposed to the image we had of painting at the time.
THREE BY SERRA. By Regina Cornwell. IN THE LATE 1960S and early ’70s many artists involved in painting, sculpture, and “body” and conceptual art began making films as well as videotapes. Unlike their counterparts involved exclusively in the film avant-garde, who were examining the medium very self-consciously, the artists came to it from ...
Feb 29, 2008 · Share. Albert Oehlen, an artist who emerged out of the angry, punk-fueled 1980s art scene in a divided Germany, is often described as a “bad painter.”. This proves somewhat ironic because he has, over thirty years, produced canvases of surprising beauty: Some are odd, melancholic gestural works, frequently in offbeat palettes; others are in ...
