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Richard Serra
Torqued Ellipses
"Serra was strongly affected by the work of a number of contemporary dancers, which prompted him to consider “ways of relating movement to material and space.” He soon began “to think about sculpture in an open and extended field, in a way that is precluded when dealing with sculpture as an autonomous object.” Three decades later, these concerns remained central to Serra’s Torqued Ellipses. These large-scale installations of contorted steel plates elaborate concerns with orientation and movement, destabilizing our experience of space as we attempt to comprehend each sculptural volume." (source)
Richard Serra, 45 Maquettes for Torqued Ellipses, 1994/98
I really love seeing an artist's maquettes - to catch a glimpse of the development and thought process behind such epic work as that of Serra's Torqued Ellipses.
