Richard Serra in "Place" - Season 1 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21

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Remembering Richard Serra (1938-2024)... Richard Serra was the first artist interview by Art21 founder, Susan Sollins, for our first episode "Place." His significance in art history and impact on Art21 cannot be overstated.

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

I watched an episode of The Charlie Rose Show I'm guessing around the time when this video was shot (give or take) wherein he mentioned his love for, and interest in, shipbuilding, and hearing him say that was a gateway for me into understanding his monumental metal sculptures! He was already one of my favorite modern-day sculptors, because I loved the sheer audacity of these superhuman-scale metallic installations, which just managed to find balance, despite the unyielding solidity of their presence in the space that they took up and how they dictated the flow of humanity through that space, but not to the point where their audience felt too imposed upon. Hearing this shipbuilding analogy gave me a profoundly deeper appreciation for his art, and what inspired his creative process, than merely my visceral reaction to the undeniable physicality of his works. Before hearing that analogy, I knew what his sculptures were made of and their psychological effects on me whenever I had the rare opportunity to interact with one of them; but, after that analogy, I understood what they meant to him and what motivated him to make them in the first place! Farewell, Richard Serra, and thanks for the awe-inspiring art that you made over the course of your lifetime!!

[@jamesanthony5681]

His Dec-2001 interview with Charlie Rose might have been arguably Rose's best interview on his PBS show.

[@SharonMcIntyre]

@@jamesanthony5681 Fully agree. I've watched it more than a dozen times. Great conversation.

[@Exploredinary]

I learned about Serra and his work from watching this episode in art class back in 2003 or so. Incredible artist.

[@tedcamahalan]

RIP Richard Serra🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@gregorylent]

their existence is the art ..

[@ed_leonardi]

When artist knew how to explain their work. RIP

[@adlibruj]

Now he is designing monumental structures just with light and magic dust!

[@ueckbueck]

just heard the news.. Rest In Peace..

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Does anyone know the kind of marker Serra was using to draw with? Thank you!

[@Exploredinary]

I was wondering that too! It looks like a lead holder but its making super thick and dark marks like a marker. I want one!

[@mansijain7243]

Raw charcoal stick i guess soft one used for Drawings

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Serra is a Spaniard origins and decided your artist career to see works of Spanish great master painter Velazquez.

[@jameswarhol442]

Your'e projecting. He's an American artist. His experiences and his work are quintessentially American.

[@veritas6335]

Not really. His father was Spanish, from Mallorca and related to Gaudi. And it was his mother, a Ukrainian Jew from Odessa, who encouraged his artwork as a child. And it was his childhood experience in the shipyards of San Francisco that motivated his sculptural works. Then he studied at Yale and then spent years studying in France and Italy. So he was a product of all of those influences - not just “quintessentially American.” Quite a Heinz 57 , like a lot of us.

[@inmapavon6733]

Very sad news x

[@jvt6]

RIP ✡️🇮🇱

[@MichaelCam-ol3ii]

A man working from the inside out! 🇵🇸✡