Saturday, October 11, 2008

"cause tomorrow's just another day; and i don't believe in time"

The works of Richard Serra encompass that line (which is the title of this post) from the song "Time" by Hootie and the Blowfish. He doesn't try to make the viewers experience his sculpture from his point of view, but lets them discover what feelings it gives them and the meaning that it has for them. He is inspired by the connection between movements and time and how the combination of those two effect our thoughts. His works are called "Torqued Torus Inversion", "Torqued Ellipses", "Band" and "Sequence". They are all shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and they are all made of steel, but appear to be made of wood. They are mammoth in size and there are no straight edges and the walls are never straight up and down, but curve outwards or inwards. The top picture is "Sequence" and the bottom is "Torqued Torus Inversion".


1 comment:

Unknown said...

There was a Serra sculpture in Chicago considered so ominous, it was petitioned against. It was a very large bronze wall in a public square.