{"id":2185,"date":"2013-04-22T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2013-04-22T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:30:14","slug":"richard-serra-early-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"Richard Serra – Early Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Serra in his studio, New York, 1968. Art \u00a9 2013 Richard Serra\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo \u00a9 2013 Lawrence Fried.<\/p><\/div>\n

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of\u00a0early work by the artist Richard Serra. Dating from 1966\u00a0to 1971, the works on view, drawn from museum and\u00a0private collections, represent the beginning of the\u00a0artist\u2019s innovative, process-oriented experiments with\u00a0nontraditional materials, such as vulcanized rubber, neon,\u00a0and lead, in addition to key early examples of his work in\u00a0steel. Also featured will be a program of the artist\u2019s films\u00a0from this period.<\/p>\n

The interplay of gravity and material that was introduced\u00a0early in his career set the stage for Serra\u2019s ongoing\u00a0engagement with the spatial and temporal properties\u00a0of sculpture. This exhibition aims to reconsider the\u00a0groundbreaking practices and ideas that so firmly situate Serra in the history of 20th Century art.<\/p>\n

On the occasion of the exhibition, the gallery will publish a comprehensive monograph devoted to this early period of the\u00a0artist\u2019s practice with Steidl, G\u00f6ttingen; the publication will include new scholarship by Hal Foster, in addition to a selection of\u00a0archival texts and photographs from the years 1966 to 1972.<\/p>\n

Richard Serra\u2019s (born 1938) first solo exhibitions were held at the Galleria La Salita, Rome, 1966, and, in the United States,\u00a0at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, in 1969. His first solo museum exhibition was held at The Pasadena Art Museum in\u00a01970. Serra has since participated in Documenta 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987), in Kassel; the Venice Biennales of 1984 and 2001; and the Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s Annual\u00a0and Biennial exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981,\u00a0and 1995. He has had solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum,\u00a0Amsterdam, 1977; the Kunsthalle T\u00fcbingen, 1978; the Museum\u00a0Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1980; the Mus\u00e9e National\u00a0d\u2019Art Moderne, Paris, 1984; the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld,\u00a01985; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986; the Louisiana\u00a0Museum, Humleb\u00e6k, 1986; the Westf\u00e4lisches Landesmuseum f\u00fcr\u00a0Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, M\u00fcnster, 1987; the St\u00e4dtische Galerie\u00a0im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1987; the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum,\u00a0Eindhoven, 1988; the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1990;\u00a0the Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, 1990; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte\u00a0Reina Sof\u00eda, Madrid, 1992; Dia Center for the Arts, New York,\u00a01997; Centro de Arte H\u00e9lio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, 1997-98;\u00a0Trajan\u2019s Market, Rome, 2000; The Pulitzer Foundation for the\u00a0Arts, St. Louis, 2003; and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di\u00a0Napoli, Naples, 2004. In 2005 eight large-scale works by Serra\u00a0were installed permanently at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,\u00a0and in 2007 the Museum of Modern Art, New York presented a\u00a0retrospective of the artist\u2019s work. His work was the subject of a solo\u00a0exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris in 2008\u00a0(MONUMENTA 2008: Richard Serra: Promenade); in 2011-12 the\u00a0exhibition Brancusi-Serra traveled from the Beyeler Foundation,\u00a0Riehen to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and a traveling survey\u00a0of Serra\u2019s drawings was on view in 2011-12 at the Metropolitan\u00a0Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern\u00a0Art; and the Menil Collection, Houston.<\/p>\n

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Read the press release here (download PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the review in The New York Times<\/i><\/a>\u00a0by Ken Johnson (Friday, April 19).<\/p>\n

Read The<\/i>\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/i>\u2018s April 12, 2013 interview with Richard Serra here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the video of the artist\u2019s press preview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch Richard Serra on The Charlie Rose Show<\/i><\/a> from 2011.<\/p>\n