Richard SerraUSA, 1938–2024Stacks
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Var finns ”Stacks” nu? Yale University Art Gallery, Lower Lobby, Sculpture Courtyard, New Haven. Ja, visas nu. Kontrollerat 19 oktober 2026.
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Stacks was originally created as a site-specific sculpture for the ground floor of the Old Yale Art Gallery, a 1928 building designed by Egerton Swartwout. The sculpture references the art library stacks that were housed in the building when Richard Serra studied at Yale in the 1960s. Its two rectangular steel blocks stand at three degrees from the vertical and are placed parallel to one another sixty feet apart. This sculpture once commanded the neo-Gothic building's large main hall. In anticipation of the Swartwout building's renovation, Serra re-sited Stacks in the sunken courtyard of the Kahn building in 2006. Serra's site-specific sculptures are predominantly known for the phenomenological experience their massive forms create, and Stacks invites the visitor to experience a field of space bound by steel and gravity.
Yale University Art Gallery
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- 1990.2.1a-b
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I Richard Serras liv
Hela livet15 March 1989
The removal of “Tilted Arc”
The sculpture meets resistance from workers in the Federal building; after an eight-year campaign to remove it, “Tilted Arc” is taken down. Serra argued that the work was made for that site and that moving it meant destroying it, and said that if it were relocated he would deny his authorship and regard it as a “derivative work.”
1991
Borromini's church and the “Torqued Ellipses”
Visiting Borromini's church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome, he mistakes the ovals of the dome and the floor for ones offset from each other and conceives a sculpture in that torqued form. In his studio he builds models from two wooden ellipses joined by a dowel, turns them at a right angle to one another and wraps a sheet of lead around the form.
1991 · Utmärkelse
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Award
