American - Sculptor | November 2, 1939 -
I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
Richard Serra
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Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
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I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
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If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
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And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
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I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.
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The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
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Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
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I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
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The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
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But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.
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But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
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