Richard Serra, the sculptor famous for his pioneering large-scale steel works, has died aged 85. His groundbreaking work, which transformed landscapes around the world with towering steel forms, established him as a leading figure in contemporary sculpture by the late 1970s. . His lawyer, John Silberman, confirmed it New York Times that the cause of his death was pneumonia. Serra was replaced by David Zwriner and Gagosian, who first presented his work in 1983.
Born in San Francisco in 1938, Serra worked in steel mills in high school and studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. Serra attended Yale, initially intending to become a painter, before switching to sculpture in the 1960s after being inspired by his travels in Europe. Once back in New York, Serra began experimenting with metal, rubber, and fiberglass.
Serra quickly became synonymous with the minimalist movement of the 1970s, gaining widespread recognition Bent bow, a 120-foot-long, 12-foot-tall plaque at Manhattan’s Foley Federal Plaza in 1981. a nuisance However, the high-level committee brought Serra’s name to the forefront of the art world.
“Richard Serra was a titan who transformed the very definition of sculpture and drawing,” said Gagosian founder Larry Gagosian. “More than that, it changed how we see and feel our way to an experience that is fundamental and sublime. He put us at the center of his art. Before material, space, weight and size, it was our experience that mattered most to him.’
Serra’s large-scale permanent installations can be found at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, and the Serra Sculpture Park in San Luis. In 2007, he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
