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Richard Serra

Wake, Blindspot, Catwalk, Vice-Versa

September 20–October 25, 2003
555 West 24th Street, New York

Richard Serra, Blindspot, 2003 (view 1) Weatherproof Steel, 14' × 60' × 29' 6" (4.2 × 18.3 × 90 m)© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Blindspot, 2003 (view 1)

Weatherproof Steel, 14' × 60' × 29' 6" (4.2 × 18.3 × 90 m)
© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Blindspot, 2003 (view 2) Weatherproof Steel, 14' × 60' × 29' 6" (4.2 × 18.3 × 90 m)© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Blindspot, 2003 (view 2)

Weatherproof Steel, 14' × 60' × 29' 6" (4.2 × 18.3 × 90 m)
© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Wake, 2003 Weatherproof steel, 14' × 75' × 46' (4.2 × 19 × 14 m)© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Wake, 2003

Weatherproof steel, 14' × 75' × 46' (4.2 × 19 × 14 m)
© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Catwalk, 2003 Weatherproof Steel, 92 × 233 × 2 inches (2.3 × 5.9 × .05 m)© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

Richard Serra, Catwalk, 2003

Weatherproof Steel, 92 × 233 × 2 inches (2.3 × 5.9 × .05 m)
© Richard Serra, photo by Rob McKeever

About

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of four new sculptures by Richard Serra: Wake, Blindspot, Catwalk, and Vice-Versa.

This exhibition expands on Serra’s use of sculptural shapes and configurations first introduced in his exhibition Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres at Gagosian in October 2001. In three of the sculptures, Wake, Blindspot, and Vice-Versa, Serra continues to develop his vocabulary of toruses (or toroid) and spheroid sections. “To begin to understand these forms,” Hal Foster has written, “picture a column or (better) a doughnut: its outside edge will describe a spheroid section, while its inside edge will describe what is called a torus, and each will have the same radius.”

Wake occupies the largest space in the gallery, with its five pairs of locked toroid forms measuring fourteen feet high, forty-eight feet long, and six feet wide apiece. Each of these five closed volumes is comprised of two toruses, with the profile of a solid, vertically flattened S.

Blindspot carries on from where the configuration of Serra’s Torqued Spirals and the shapes of the Toruses and Spheres of the earlier exhibition left off. It is composed of six plates, three spheres, and three toruses.

In Catwalk (Reverse Camber) a single sixteen-by-twenty-two-foot horizontal plate bridges the elevational cut flanking the incline plane of the gallery floor.

Vice-Versa consists of one toroid pairing, here presented in an open configuration.

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

Now available
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.