Richard Serra Trifecta at GAGOSIAN

James Kalm made it to all three of the Richard Serra exhibitions and, surprisingly, was allowed to record video. Due to the Minimalist nature of these works, their physical materiality, and to avoid infecting the viewing experience, your correspondent decided to withhold comment.

Viewers will begin at the 980 Madison Ave, location for “Triptychs and Diptychs” a selection of large works on paper. These pieces are all paint stick, etching ink and silica on hand made paper, and exemplify in two dimensions the surface texture and delicate balance of volume and form that the artist carries out with his massive steel sculptures downtown.

Next we visit four new works at the West 24th Street gallery from Serra’s “Rounds series”. “Each forged-steel sculpture is composed of multiple 50-ton elements of differing diameters and heights.” Quoting the artist’s statement from the press release “Weight is a value for me—not that it is any more compelling than lightness, but I simply know more about weight than about lightness and therefore I have more to say about it, more to say about the balancing of weight, the diminishing of weight, the addition and subtraction of weight, the concentration of weight, the rigging of weight, the propping of weight, the placement of weight, the locking of weight, the psychological effects of weight, the disorientation of weight, the disequilibrium of weight, the rotation of weight, the movement of weight, the directionality of weight, the shape of weight.
—Richard Serra.

Finally, we bike four blocks south to make a strolling tour around the giant piece “Reverse Curve (2005/19).” “Bisecting the West 21st Street gallery space will be a sculpture measuring 99 feet long and 13 feet high. Originally conceived in 2005 for a public project in Reggio Emilia, Italy, “Reverse Curve” is finally being realized for the first time.” Segments of this program were recorded September 18, October 11, and November 23, 2019.

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