This lavishly illustrated volume documents the first public
presentation of a recent monumental sculpture by Richard Serra, one of
the most significant artists of his generation.
Richard Serra has produced large-scale sculptures for architectural,
urban, and landscape settings spanning the globe. This volume, published
to coincide with a 2021-22 exhibition at Gagosian Le Bourget in Paris,
presents a recent sculpture by the artist: Transmitter (2020). Made of
weatherproof steel, Transmitter is monumental in scale, measuring
approximately 4 meters in height and 18 meters in width and length.
Here, immersive installation views of the sculpture within the vast
exhibition space of Gagosian Le Bourget in Paris are accompanied by
plate photography of fourteen recent works on paper by the artist. A new
text by art historian Maria Stavrinaki (in English and French) reads
Serra's long sculptural practice through three formal, temporal, and
political moments.
Richard Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco, and lives and works in
New York. His work is held in major museum collections around the world.
Since 1983, Gagosian has presented thirty-seven exhibitions of Serra's
work in the United States and Europe.
