REFERENCE   

Richard Serra Drawing a retrospective

The menil collection march 2- JUINE 10 2012

PURPOSE

drawing is more than lines or marks on a piece of paper. It isperceptual, experiential, and conceptual; it is a way to see, to feel, andWhile Serra is best known for his large and powerful steel sculptures,drawing has long been an important, yet under-examined, aspect of hiswork. It serves as both a practice that is independent from the artist s sculp-ture, and one that informs it. Unlike many, Serra does not use drawing as apreliminary step for his sculptures.

THESIS

SerraThe first retrospective of the artists drawings

SUMMARY

Painting is a way of life, painting is not to generate or outline ideas, but to see, walk and think in response to the world around them, painting should be to feel the process

QUOTE

 It isperceptual, experiential, and conceptua

CONNECTION

The movement of the body in time, the friction of the hands, the restraint of the hands, the grasping of the hands and the movement of the hands in space can leave traces, and then use these traces to draw a picture

IMPLICATION

Foregrounding the artists handTHE MENIL COLLECTIONspeech, Serra cautioned the future generation not to”let the rhetoric ofat work, the role of the body, and the time-based tasks that constitute theMarch 2-june 10. 2012simulation steal away the intimacy of your experience. Keep it real, keepcreation of a work of art, the films, like his drawings, reflect Serra’s earlyit in the moment”