Opening this week at Gagosian in London are two concurrent exhibitions of new work by Richard Serra. Three new steel sculptures are on view at the Britannia Street galleries together with a series of "forged drawings"- small, geometric forged steel plates with paint stick applied to the surface. At Gagosian's Davies Street space you can see new works on paper. These exhibition are Serra's first in London since 'Weight and Measure' was presented at the Tate in 1992.
Born in 1939, Richard Serra is one of the most significant sculptors of his generation. He has long been recognized for his seminal and groundbreaking work which focuses on an exchange between work, site, and viewer. He has produced unparalleled large-scale, site-specific works for particular architectural, urban and landscape settings. Earlier this year, he conceived Promenade, a course of five steel sculptural elements towering 17 metres, for MONUMENTA at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Other recent projects include the eight-part permanent installation The Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2005) and a survey exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art (2007). Work comes out of work, an exhibition of works on paper 1989-2008, is currently showing at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.
Richard Serra: Sculptures
4 October - 20 December
Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Britannia Street
London WC1X 9JD
Gallery opening hours:
Mon-Sat 10:00am-6:00pm
Richard Serra: Drawings
4 October - 22 November
Gagosian Gallery
17-19 Davies Street
London W1K 3DE
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