Richard Serra

Richard Serra Curated

American Process Artist

CURATED BY : Dipayan

Serra has participated in numerous major international exhibitions, including Documenta (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987), and the Biennale di Venezia (1980, 1984, 2001, and 2013), and his work has been included in many Whitney Annuals and Biennials (1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1995, and 2006). He is the recipient of the Leone d’Oro for lifetime achievement, Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2001); Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, Federal Republic of Germany (2002); Orden de las Artes y las Letras de España, Spain (2008); President’s Medal, Architectural League of New York (2014); Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, Republic of France (2015); and J. Paul Getty Medal (2018).

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What in your earlier life would suggest who you are today?
What’s the connection between the talent you have now and what naturally made you when you were 4 years old?
Did you have natural talent for drawing?
What was your reaction when you got accepted in Yale?
What was your need behind being playful with animals even if it was going against painting?
Do you think you are the best sculptor in the world?
Was the 90’s a great decade for you or not?
Where does beauty lie in art?
In your opinion what are the young artists up to?
Is art about making you think?
Which part of whole sculpting procedure makes you the happiest?
Did you ever think about architecture from a professional point of view?
What is your view on negative criticism?
Why did you choose steel?
Is there anything about steel that is limiting for you?
What is your belief in the potential of a sculpture?
Do you think art is gonna change the world?
What are your primary tools and strategies in scuplture?
What does drawing mean to you?
How do you understand or define drawing?
Can you tell us about how drawing is an everyday part of your life?
Do you think you look at the world in terms of drawings?
How do you like to break the convention in drawing?
How does sculpture and drawing differ?
Can you talk about the importance of invention of paint stick?
Where are you in terms of your evolution of your thinking about sculpture and what you hoped to achieve?
What is engineering changing in terms of what you can do?
Are you ever going to work with something other than steel?
Are you in a good place in terms of your artistic life?
Do you compete with yourself everyday?
Did you began your life as an painter?
What is the intention behind your art?
Is it setting yourself these new challenges continuously pushing the boundaries, that sustains you?
What attracts you about the double portrait?
How do you like working with steel?
How did you want to use steel?
Do you make drawings of your pieces?
What is the problem with virtual reality?
What do you think about art?