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"Coup de coeur" by Richard Serra
Paths and Edges - Avril 2008
Si les sculptures monumentales de l’américain Richard Serra font aujourd’hui parties de paysages urbains de toute première importance, si des expositions internationales montrent l’importance considérable de son travail sculpté (une exposition est prévue très prochainement à Paris, au Grand Palais), le public connaît moins son œuvre graphique. Elle est puissante, c’est le moins ! Les rapports entre l’œuvre gravé et l’œuvre sculpté de Serra sont indéniables. L’artiste considère la production de sa propre œuvre graphique comme ayant un rapport étroit avec une « alchimie », selon ses propres mots. C’est de cela dont il s’agit ici ! Si ses premières expériences sur la pierre lithographique le déçurent - les résultats lui parurent « trop raffinés » -, l’artiste s’engagea rapidement dans l’art de graver sur la plaque de métal (souvent l’aluminium). Chemin faisant, Serra y exprimera sa réflexion sur le phénomène de perception spatiale. Avec force et rigueur, l’artiste nous donnera à découvrir, à la fois le poids de la masse et la précarité de son équilibre, à la fois ce qui semble statique à tout jamais et le court instant précédent la rupture de la chose établie, à la fois les lignes de force et le point faible d’une organisation de l’espace. Être à l’abri certes, mais pas hors de danger ! Par de multiples approches, Richard Sera, artiste minimaliste, travaille sur la tension. Tensions blanches et noires qui se croisent, entrent en relation, au même instant s’unissent et s’opposent, décomposent la relation entre la forme et le fond. On ne sera pas étonné de constater, le plus souvent, de l’étonnante structuration de la surface des estampes de l’artiste. La matière est présence ; sillons et autres bouillonnements animent avec intensité les surfaces noires. L’œuvre gravé de Serra, artiste majeur de notre époque, est magnifiquement vivante et ouvre à la méditation !
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Notes of biography
The sculptor Richard Serra is born in 1939 in San Francisco. He studies primarily English literature at UC Berkeley and Santa Barbara, working alongside in a steel mill to earn a living. He studies, subsequently, Fine Arts and painting at Yale University, where he collaborates in the work of Josef Albers "Interaction of Color".
In 1965, thanks to a scholarship, he lives in Paris, where he meets Philip Glass and becomes interest in the work of Brancusi ("It was there that my switching to sculpture took place," says the artist), then Greece and Turkey. Again scholar, Richard Serra spends a year in Florence (Italy) where he discovers the Povera Arte, which influences his work.
The young artist moves to New York the following year, frequenting many artists of his generation who become salient: Carl Andre, Eva Hesse, Joan Jonas, Bruce Naumann and others. By the mid-sixties, Richard Serra regularly participates in group exhibitions, including those on American sculpture, and the first in a long list of solo exhibitions present his work in Rome in 1966. This is the beginning of a very large number of exhibitions throughout the world. The artist travels extensively to install his sculptures (USA, Spain, Israel, Japan, Greece, France, Germany, etc.). Over time, most major international museums organize events around his work. Numerous awards and honors mark his artistic career. Richard Serra receives significant public commissions (Amsterdam, New York, Paris - Square de Choisy - Berlin, Reykjavik, Basel, etc.).
From his beginnings as a sculptor, Richard Serra gives up all traditional data from sculpture; his work evolves around a slow thinking, toward minimal forms that are his trademark.
His works are staged to reveal tensions, an imbalance or potential energy. The use of the gravity of the material is a constant in the activity of Richard Serra, more particularly in the balance of steel sheets resting on the edges, either against a wall or against each other in support by their top or in other combinations. The artist exploits the latent possibilities of collapse and the resulting dangers emanating from them.
Serra's sculptures are inseparable from the place for which they are created. Richard Serra is an artist with multiple concerns, a man of excess. The artist builds a large engraved work, begun in the early 70s, using various means of graphic expression: engravings, lithographs and serigraphs.
He lives and works in New York and New Scotland.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« L'oeuvre sculpté et dessiné », Zweite, Crimp, Bois et Ammann, Ed. Gerd Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart, 1987 *« Richard Serra. Drawings, Zeichnungen, 1969-1990 », Y.-A. Bois, Ed. H. Janssen- Benteli Verlag, Berne, 1990Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Richard Serra, Écrits et entretien 1970-1989 », Ed. Daniel Lelong, Paris, 1990
- « Richard Serra », A. Pacquement, Ed. Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, 1993
- « La Mormaire », S. Germer, Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1997
- « R. S. au Musée Guggenheim », in Connaissance des Arts, Hors série, Nov. 2006
- « R. S. sculpture : Forty years », K. Mcshine et L. Cooke, Ed. MoMa, 2007
- « R. Serra : Monumenta, Grand Palais », collectif, Beaux Arts Ed., 2008
- « Richard Serra : L'origine de la gravité », D. Klébaner, Ed. Ides et Calendes, 2011
- « Brancusi, Serra », Friedrich Teja Bach et autres, Ed. Fondation Beyeler, 2011
- « Richard Serra 2016 », Briony Fer, Ed. Gagosian / Rizzoli, 2017
- « Richars Serra : Drawings 2015-2017 », cat. d'expo., Rotterdam, Ed. Steidl, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Richard Serra : Writings, interviews », University of Chicago Press, 1994
- « R. Serra : ma réponse à Kyôto », Fabien Faure, Fage Editions, 2008
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Stamp by Richard Serra
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
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