Richard Serra
dal 6/11/2014 al 19/12/2014
Segnalato da
6/11/2014
Richard Serra
David Zwirner, New York
Vertical and Horizontal Reversals. The show presents a group of fifteen drawings made with a thick impasto of black paintstick conveying a sense of weight, gravity and massand. The exhibition includes new Horizontal Reversals that have not previously been show.
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new drawings by Richard Serra at its 537 West 20th Street gallery.
Serra began creating drawings in 1971, and they continue to constitute an autonomous part of his practice. Often large
in scale, the artist’s drawings are typically made with a thick impasto of black paintstick (or, more recently, lithographic
crayons melted and formed into a brick), which is applied to a surface in broad, dense passages. Serra’s exclusive use of
black in these abstract works absorbs and reduces light, conveying a sense of weight, gravity, and mass.
Begun in the summer of 2013, Serra’s “Symmetry” and “Reversal” drawings employ two identical rectangular sheets of
paper that are adjoined in a vertical or horizontal format. In the “Symmetry” drawings, the white and black areas mirror
one another in two symmetrically juxtaposed sheets. In the related “Reversal” drawings, from which the works in this
exhibition are drawn, the black and white areas reverse themselves proportionally top to bottom (or left to right). The
area that is black on the top (or left) sheet is white on the bottom (or right) sheet, and the area that is white on the top
(or left) sheet is black on the bottom (or right) sheet in a figure/ground reversal. With these works, Serra expands upon
his longstanding interest in the physical versus the cognitive perception of form.
A group of fifteen Vertical Reversal drawings was first presented at the Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro from May
September 2014 (Richard Serra: desenhos na casa da Gávea); the exhibition at David Zwirner will additionally include
new Horizontal Reversals that have not previously been shown.
On the occasion of the exhibition, David Zwirner Books is publishing a catalogue that will include new scholarship by
art historian Gordon Hughes.
This is the second exhibition at David Zwirner of Richard Serra’s work. In 2013, the gallery presented Richard Serra:
Early Work, a critically acclaimed exhibition that brought together significant works from 1966-1971. The accompanying
catalogue, published by Steidl/David Zwirner, extensively covers this period of the artist’s career with a compendium
of archival texts and photographs and an essay by Hal Foster. In May 2015, the gallery will present an exhibition of new
sculpture by the artist.
Image:Installation view, "Richard Serra: Vertical and Horizontal Reversals," David Zwirner, New York, 2014 © 2014 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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