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. -Richard Serra

 

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.


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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.

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The Matter of Time.

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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.

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

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

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