Richard Serra
(San Francisco, United Estates, 1939)
The matter of Time
(La materia del tiempo)
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
- The artist used traditional geometric forms and models combined with new technologies to produce unconventional shapes.
- The shades of color of the works change as the weathering steel undergoes a gradual oxidization process.
- The relationship between sculpture and the human body is explored through scale, equilibrium, weight, and tension.
Introduction
The current work — The Matter of Time — installed permanently at the Museum, is the artist's most complete rumination on the physicality of space and the nature of sculpture. Installed in the largest gallery of the Frank Gehry-designed museum, the seven new commissioned sculptures join Serra's Snake (1994-97) —created for the museum's inauguration— and comprise a site-specific installation of a scale and ambition unrivaled in modern history.