Richard Serra "Early Work"
David Zwirner 20th Street
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David Zwirner presents an exhibition of early work by the artist Richard Serra. Dating from 1966 to 1971, the works on view, drawn from museum and private collections, represent the beginning of the artist’s innovative, process-oriented experiments with nontraditional materials, such as vulcanized rubber, neon, and lead, in addition to key early examples of his work in steel. Also featured will be a program of the artist’s films from this period.
The interplay of gravity and material that was introduced early in his career set the stage for Serra’s ongoing engagement with the spatial and temporal properties of sculpture. This exhibition aims to reconsider the groundbreaking practices and ideas that so firmly situate Serra in the history of 20th Century art.
On the occasion of the exhibition, the gallery will publish a comprehensive monograph devoted to this early period of the
artist’s practice with Steidl, Göttingen; the publication will include new scholarship by Hal Foster, in addition to a selection of
archival texts and photographs from the years 1966 to 1972.
[Image: Richard Serra in his studio, New York, 1968. Art © 2013 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © 2013 Lawrence Fried.]
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from April 12, 2013 to June 15, 2013