Richard Serra

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on Thursday, April 21, 2011 * * * * *

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Richard Serra on his Drawing retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    1. NeilMacCallister  05/02/2011 04:37 AM Report

      Hah! ..and you said you were an engineer.

    2. markhas  05/01/2011 12:51 PM Report

      "Let's grab a shovel and sculpt a trench to carry that excess water from flooded Missouri down to fire-ravaged Texas!"

      Nope that would be enviromental disaster and mass suicide. Learn to live with nature and enjoy it's marvels. The escess is in your mindlessness only.

    3. NeilMacCallister  04/27/2011 05:30 PM Report

      "..for those capable of understanding", ..hah! ..how "hermetic"!! (..I thought the grasped-for aesthetic of the moment was "Union"??)

      The Aesthetic versus the Hermetic! ..Yes!! That IS the noble-savage laissez faire versus our tax-fund "guaranteed" comfort indemnifications.

      Let's quit putting our lives and our mechanics in a glass case on a shelf. Let's grab a shovel and sculpt a trench to carry that excess water from flooded Missouri down to fire-ravaged Texas!

      Now THAT would be beautiful ART!

      ("..then I'll just sit down on this old bank of sand and watch the river flow!")

    4. markhas  04/26/2011 09:29 AM Report

      Serra has hit a note with me. As an engineer I see things like a bridge, building, machine, in mathamatical terms. I cannot pass one without thinking of it's dimensions, load bearing, esthetic qualities, I think he is really expressing something real and valid for those capable of understanding. How about this for a kinetic version of Serra, a shock absorber in action, or railroad tracks in action as a train travels over it? Try it, it's beautiful.

      My Friend Frank tells me of the time he got sick and tired of listening to the radio on his commute to work, so he turned it off and just listend to the diesel engine purr along... the art is more than visual.

    5. NeilMacCallister  04/23/2011 02:18 AM Report

      Sorry, ..but that "Look far.." line isn't mine of course,

      ..and Sister Tharpe sings it better:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpe2wYcO8bc

      (..God bless us all!!!)

    6. NeilMacCallister  04/23/2011 01:54 AM Report

      Hah! ..futurevisionaries brings up "branding".

      Just as Mr. Rose here informs us that Mr. Serra has now been "for the first time" asked to show his work in a few major venues in the large population centers of New York, Houston, and San Francisco.

      In this heated political year, Mr. Serra has first been asked to come into the district of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer, and bring his collection of black/white juxtapositions, and his parading of the word "Union" in his major piece where the viewer stands between two tall comforting black canvasses, and begins to feel both "diminished in scale" and "more understanding of change".

      I believe the Museum's entry banner also flashes "Obama 2012" for 1/60th of a sec. every 3 mins.

      ***

      Too bad. This may eventually cause Mr. Serra grief.

      Because at the same time that he gets himself corralled like this, he also strains to reach out with the individualist's pride of both private property (.."I won't show my notebooks") and self direction (.."Work comes out of work")

      The more liberally-minded Mr. Rose immediately negated Mr. Serra's request for private property, and had him open his book.

      Be careful Mr. Serra. Look far down that road before you go!