Richard Serra continues to produce rigorous and intense engravings. His two new compositions, entitled Backstop, combine etchings and the use of paintsticks on a double panel exploring mass and equilibrium, as is often the case in his sculpture.
In addition to these new works, we are exhibiting a number of engravings from the Composite suite, conceived in 2018–2019, the printing of which was delicate, requiring many months of effort. They combine aquatint and paintstick applied via screen-printing to produce a texture with an impressive density.
This exhibition of etchings by Richard Serra at Galerie Lelong & Co., prepared in collaboration with the Gemini G.E.L studio in California, is testimony to a longstanding relationship with the artist and his work, dating back more than 30 years.
In early 2022, Centre Pompidou in Paris will organise a retrospective of the films and videos of Richard Serra.Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. He lives and works in New York.
Known for his for his large scale, site-specific steel sculptures, Richard Serra is an influential American Minimalist, based in New York and Nova Scotia. The Venice Golden-lion-winning artist's extensive career is often discussed in relation to the development of contemporary public art and 20th-century minimalist sculpture.
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