A Conversation with Richard Serra

Learn more about the exhibition Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective on view at the Met April 13, 2011 - August 28, 2011: http://met.org/g9F235

Richard Serra, Artist

Magdalena Dabrowski, Special Consultant, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lynne Cooke, Curator-at-Large, Dia Art Foundation and Chief Curator, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

This first retrospective of drawings by the contemporary American artist Richard Serra (b. 1939) presents a comprehensive overview of some forty years of his drawing activity. It traces the development of drawing as an art form independent from yet linked to his sculptural practice. Drawing for Serra has always played a crucial role in the investigation of new concepts and new creative methods. It has been a means of exploration of formal and perceptual relationships between the artwork and the viewer. His innovative ideas have radically transformed the traditional understanding of drawing as a form outlined against a background of the paper support, and exponentially expanded the definition of modern drawing through novel techniques, unusual media, monumental scale, and carefully conceived relationships to surrounding spaces.

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