Richard Serra
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"Richard Serra" is an American minimalism/minimalist sculpture/sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

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The piece is predicated on walking and moving, anticipation and reflection, through these various pieces and through the museum as a whole.

The Matter of Time.

This will function not as a bell tower, but as a vertical structure that collects the buildings. It's open and people will gather and walk around.

The weight doesn't seem to be a factor because you don't sense the weight. They look like big feathers or something, big blades.

The subject of the work is your experience, your walking.

When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

I pointed out the window and said I would put a 40-foot tall piece right there. I wasn't even 30 yet.