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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings
It is in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature that the
imagination of these landscape drawings comes to life. Without any
heroic emphasis, these drawings result from the observation of
traces, evident or discreet, in the urban landscape, and the
process to collect and memorise traces is the way to consider
memory as a primary medium for creativity. The selected collection
of over 150 drawings, thought and imagined over many years,
delineates a personal city experience, without any intention of
building a new city theory. No single drawing in this book is a
representation of cities in-situ; all of them are interpretations,
translations, and combinations of traces collected and selected
while teaching, working, meeting cultures, and eating food in many
different cities around the world. These drawings are a different
form of communication than the beautiful renderings produced in
endless numbers.
As the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the
sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international
acclaim. Yet even those who have marveled at Serra's intellectually
rigorous and large works of sculpture may not be familiar with his
equally intriguing drawings. This handsome book brings together for
the first time Serra's drawn work, considering the artist's
investigation of medium as an activity both independent from and
linked to his pioneering sculptural practice. First working in ink,
charcoal, and lithographic crayon on paper, Serra originally used
drawing as a means to explore form and perceptual relations between
his sculpture and the viewer. Over time, his drawings underwent
significant shifts in concept, materials, and scale and became
fully realized and autonomous works of art. The grand, bold forms
he created with black paintstick in his monumental Installation
Drawings were designed to disrupt and complement existent spaces
and eventually began to occupy entire rooms. In the late 1980s,
Serra explored the tension of weight and gravity through layering,
and his most recent work experiments with surface effects, using
mesh screens as intermediaries between the gesture and the transfer
of pigment to paper. Distributed for The Menil Collection
Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of
Art(04/11/11-08/28/11) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(10/15/11-01/16/12) The Menil Collection (03/02/12-06/10/12)
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