RICHARD SERRA DRAWING: A RETROSPECTIVE by Richard Serra

A collection of works by American artist Richard Serra. It was published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April to August 2011 and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) from November 2011 to January 2012.

The artist's sculptures have been the highlight of the exhibitions at numerous important exhibitions and have received high praise worldwide. However, even those who are impressed by the enormous sculpture works supported by strict intelligence probably don't know that the artist's drawings are as full of charm as sculptures. This book, the first book to compile drawing works, examines the evolution of the author's drawings as a means of expression that is independent and linked to pioneering sculpture works.

The author originally used drawings drawn with ink, charcoal and lithograph crayons as a means to explore the relationship between shape and perception between the sculpture and the viewer. Over time, the drawings changed dramatically in terms of concept, material and scale, and grew into an autonomous work that embodies the author's worldview. A large-scale installation work "Installation DrawingsIn ", the dignified, bold shapes painted with paint sticks were calculated to destroy and complement existing spaces, and in the end dominate the entire space. By the late 1980s, the author began to express the tension between weight and gravity by overlaying the colour. In recent works that focus on superficial effects, they use mesh screens as mediators to convert the movement of the hand drawn into paint on paper.

Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer Lizzie Borden, Magdalena Dabrowski, special consultant for modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gary Garrels, Ellis S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Bernice Rose, chief curator of the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center, and Richard, chairman of the Effie Marie Kane, director of the Arts, University of Texas at Austin, head of the Center for Modernism Studies. Shiff) and Michelle White, Associate Curator of the Menil Collection.