“When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.” WayArtUseUsedBuildingRevolutionIndustryMovedHandleBridgesSteelTechnologicalSculptureBuilder Author:Richard Serra
“Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.” WholeLinesWalksPerceptionLogicRelationDrivenRelatedInternalsPlatesSiteStrictSculptureFragmentsMeasurementAxesPlacementPromenade Author:Richard Serra
“If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.” IfsDifferentRealPurposeConcernPhotographScalesPassingPassingsPlanesFlatsConsumptionSculptureReducingPassing On Book:Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980 Source: Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980
“It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.” PeopleWayWantPaintingPhotographSculpture Author:Richard Serra
“I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.” UseFormSpaceMaterialsConcernConsideringSculptureAttemptingMinimalismDistinctiveSculptorsPrecedenceArticulationSculpting Book:Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years Source: Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
“If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.” IfsConditionsDeceptionPlanesFlatsSculptureInseparable Author:Richard Serra
“And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.” IfsWayMeanHas BeensChanceOughtSculpture Author:Richard Serra
“The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.” MovingResultsStepsEnvironmentMovementPerceptionExpansionViewersSculptureContractions Book:In the matter of a public hearing on the Source: In the matter of a public hearing on the
