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Richard Serra

Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres

October 18–December 15, 2001
555 West 24th Street, New York

Richard Serra, Betwixt the Torus and the Sphere, 2001 Weatherproof steel, three spherical sections, three torus sections, 142 × 450 × 319 inches (360.7 × 1143 × 810.3 cm)© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Betwixt the Torus and the Sphere, 2001

Weatherproof steel, three spherical sections, three torus sections, 142 × 450 × 319 inches (360.7 × 1143 × 810.3 cm)
© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serrra Bellamy, 2001 Torqued spiral weatherproof steel plate thickness: 2" 156 × 531 × 394 inches (4 × 13.5 × 10 m) © Richard Serra

Richard Serrra Bellamy, 2001

Torqued spiral weatherproof steel plate thickness: 2" 156 × 531 × 394 inches (4 × 13.5 × 10 m) © Richard Serra

Richard Serra, Sylvester, 2001 Torqued Spiral, weatherproof steel, plate thickness: 2", 163 × 492 × 380 inches, (4.1 × 12.5 × 9.7 m)© Richard Serra

Richard Serra, Sylvester, 2001

Torqued Spiral, weatherproof steel, plate thickness: 2", 163 × 492 × 380 inches, (4.1 × 12.5 × 9.7 m)
© Richard Serra

Richard Serra, Union of the Torus and the Sphere, 2001 Weatherproof steel, one spherical section, one Torus section, 142 × 447 × 125 inches, (3.6 × 11.4 × 3.2 m)© Richard Serra

Richard Serra, Union of the Torus and the Sphere, 2001

Weatherproof steel, one spherical section, one Torus section, 142 × 447 × 125 inches, (3.6 × 11.4 × 3.2 m)
© Richard Serra

About

Gagosian Chelsea is pleased to present an exhibition of six new sculptures by Richard Serra. Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres announces Serra’s involvement with new sculptural shapes and configurations.

In recent years Serra has explored the effects of torqued forms in a series of single- and double-torqued ellipses. The two torqued spirals in the present show, Bellamy and Sylvester, titled in honor of two recently deceased friends, turn the interior corridor of the double-torqued ellipse into a seemingly endless path into its core. In his text for the exhibition catalogue, Hal Foster vividly describes the experience of walking the spiraling path: “It is as if your body becomes its own roller coaster, one tracked not up and down but round and round.”

Betwixt the Torus and the Sphere and Union of the Torus and the Sphere introduce entirely new shapes into Serra’s sculptural vocabulary. For the first time he works with spheroid and toroid sections. In Betwixt the Torus and the Sphere, three toroid and three spheroid sections are assembled to create five unique passageways. In Union of the Torus and the Sphere, a toroid section and a spheroid section lock together to create Serra’s first sculpture with an interior volume that cannot be entered. Both of these sections, with their extreme lean, are freestanding.

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Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2022

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2022

The Winter 2022 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on its cover.

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Alina Ibragimova

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Alina Ibragimova

Violinist Alina Ibragimova performs Bach’s Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Major: Adagio (BWV 1001, c. 1720) from within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies, a nonprofit organization that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances, in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022 before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Mario Brunello

Richard Serra: Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Mario Brunello

Cellist Mario Brunello performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude (BWV 1007, c. 1717–23) within Richard Serra’s sculpture Transmitter (2020) at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Organized by Bold Tendencies—a nonprofit that commissions artists to produce site-specific projects and present performances—in collaboration with Gagosian, this recorded performance took place on May 8, 2022, before a live concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941).

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From Richard Serra: Trevor Noah’s Message Against Racial Injustice

In response to enduring racial injustices and the recent widespread civil unrest, Richard Serra urges people to watch this video commentary by Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show.

Richard Serra, Hands Scraping, 1968, film still.

The Art of Perception: Richard Serra’s Films

For eleven years, from 1968 to 1979, Richard Serra created a collection of films and videos that felt out the uncharted phenomenological boundaries of the medium. Carlos Valladares explores a selection of these works.

The cover of the Fall 2019 Gagosian Quarterly magazine. Artwork by Nathaniel Mary Quinn

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Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Sinking (2019) by Nathaniel Mary Quinn on its cover.