The Vision of Richard Serra

Richard Serra MoMA American sculptor
Nicole Bengiveno / New York Times / Redux

Serra inside of Torqued Ellipse IV, part of a breakthrough series of forms he started to produce in the mid-90s. For each of them a oval form is twisted — torqued — to create a powerfully distorted enclosure.

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