RICHARD SERRA – DRAWINGS
2011-03-28Throughout his career, Serra has made drawings as separate, immediate, and fundamental lines of investigation to his sculptures. They are explorations in their own right, integral to the overall concerns of his sculptural practice, and unique intuitive explorations within their own established criteria. Using black paintstick or oilstick, heated to a viscous and sometimes fluid state, he creates elemental forms through direction action on the paper and the accretion of medium. These drawings are self-referential: they do not imply surface and weight but rather they are surface and weight.
All drawings by Richard Serra, executed between 2007 and 2010.
Opposite – Tracks #30, 2007, paintstick on handmade paper
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
19 place de Longemalle
1204
Geneva
