Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective

New York’s Metropolitan Museum is hosting until the 28th of August the first retrospective of drawings by contemporary North-American artist Richard Serra, presenting a comprehensive overview of forty years of his drawing activity.

The exhibition presents the evolution of Serra’s drawings throughout the 1970’s (when he turned to black paintstick, a crayon comprised of a mixture of pigment, oil, and wax, creating heavily textured works, frequently very large in scale) to recent times.

The show culminates in site-specific, large-scale works that, despite not yet reaching the monumental size of his maxisculptures, still produces a spatial effect that is equally disorienting to the senses.

  1. Adrian Clement
    22.05.11 23:13

    Amazing. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Marina Esmeraldo
    22.05.11 23:44

    You’re very welcome, Adrian :) Thanks for your comment!

  3. Carl MH Barenbrug
    23.05.11 11:06

    I really do like these.

  4. agnes szucs @ iiiinspired
    23.05.11 19:36

    wow. i do like these, too.

    agnes

  5. Aaron
    23.05.11 22:29

    Serra is the best.

  6. Chris
    24.05.11 01:14

    Total black can be inspiring too, interesting.

  7. Jacques
    25.05.11 14:55

    Very nice. That’s not drawing (to me) though.

  8. jim
    27.05.11 05:04

    Saw the exhibit in person. Very nice. But my nine-year-old son was convinced that he could do better.

  9. Justin
    12.06.11 18:24

    Then your nine year old son better get crackin’, eh?

    Serra is brilliant.

  10. The LoveWhore(s)
    15.07.11 02:50

    Fly wrote : And this is supposed to be ART ? Nice try …

    Karen wrote : I like it ! I would just not pay to see it …

    Jet wrote : I wish you could be a lil bit more open mind to his ideas. I like it! And I would definitively pay to see it.

    Fly wrote : Looser !