Richard Serra (exhibition).

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......that the massive steel plates of his Torqued Ellipses series do not torque in actuality...the experience of standing inside Torqued Ellipses: As the eye wanders round the church...Undeniably, the looming materiality of Torqued Ellipses makes a powerful first impression...

The Arts: Torque up, pedestal off Art

The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ......new under the sun with his series of Torqued Ellipses, currently on show at the Guggenheim...at least in the case of the Double Torqued Ellipses - inside a winding passage. But it...dullish lumps of iron to me. These Torqued Ellipses, however, are a different matter...

Twisted fate

The Village Voice;  December 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ......wish I could love Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses. I know they're great. I see how other...my heart assent someday. The three Torqued Ellipses at Dia are enclosures, 12 or more...like foreplay forever. The title "Torqued Ellipses" might better be rendered "Twisted...

Place: Richard Serra.(artist)(Brief Article)

School Arts;  September 1, 2001 ;     419 words ...Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipses, 1996-97. Cor-Ten Steel. Installation view from Torqued Ellipses, Dia Center for the Arts, New York...Things to Consider: Compare Serra's Torqued Ellipses with Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum...

Richard Serra

Artforum;  October 1, 2006 ;     655 words ......locomotion. The Guggenheim installation centers on the "Torqued Ellipses," 1996-2004, a group of works employing new engineering...speed and even lightness akin to that articulated by the "Torqued Ellipses." Fascinated as he is with fleeting sightlines, subtle...

FORGED-STEEL chutzpah Serra's massive, sweeping creations are worth weight

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ......scale. The main floor plays host to Serra's vessel-like "Torqued Ellipses." These stand between 11 and 13 feet high and are made...smallish room, is an array of rolled-lead models for the "Torqued Ellipses." The unifying detail here, we're told, is the fact that...

Towering sculptures in torqued steel

International Herald Tribune;  June 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......rarest, compliment you can give to any artist. Serra's ''Torqued Ellipses'' and ''Torqued Toruses'' and other recent works like...although the works partly thwart the effort. Serra's ''Torqued Ellipses'' and their descendants can't be pictured mentally, except...

Beware of falling forms: Richard Serra's menacing, mammoth sculptures at...

Newsday (Melville, NY);  June 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......rhetoric. In 1997, he exhibited a new body of work called Torqued Ellipses at Dia Art Foundation in Chelsea. (MoMA has installed one...bear down on viewers, oozing rage and challenge. But the Torqued Ellipses are different in one key respect: They allow viewers to...

Culture: Review: A vibrant night in the mix; Alexandra Wood and Huw...

The Birmingham Post (England);  October 11, 2002 ;     276 words ......framing three very recent works for violin and piano with two earlier pieces. To all of them soloist Alexandra Wood and pianist Huw Watkins...repetitions combining with an almost vocal kind of expression. The earlier pieces, Berio's Due Pezzi and Lutoslawski's Partita, proved interesting...

Serra reshapes space and time Art

International Herald Tribune;  June 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Even if you know Serra's other recent work (over the past decade, he has made more than a dozen ''Torqued Ellipses,'' ''Double Torqued Ellipses,'' ''Torqued Spirals'' and so on), you won't quite grasp the eloquence of what he has done now...

Century Marks

Artforum;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......pieces on the museum's sixth floor to Serra's most recent torqued ellipses on the second meant a calculated leap over the period when...they find themselves. This is partly because, unlike the torqued ellipses, there is a fundamental agreement between plan and elevation...

CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCES TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY

The Boston Globe;  October 31, 2001 ;     501 words ......Pearson - of a revision by Mozart (K. 516) of one of his earlier pieces (K. 388); 2) the first performance of a revision by John...oboe in, flute out, and a brand new movement) of one of his earlier pieces; and 3) the Second Piano Quartet by Gabriel Faure, a masterpiece...

[Pounds]1m price tag for mother and child figure

Yorkshire Post;  November 23, 2005 ;     417 words ......recent years. Described by Moore himself as "one of my best earlier pieces", it was bought soon after his exhibition at the Leicester...a long time but I always look upon it as one of my best earlier pieces and it will help to make the exhibition more complete than...

pounds 1m for Moore sculpture.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  November 30, 2005 ;     50 words ......Henry Moore yesterday sold at auction for more than pounds 1 million. Mother and Child, described by Moore as one of my best earlier pieces , was snapped up for pounds 1,069,600 at Bonhams auctioneers in London. It was sold to a private collector and smashed the...

Henry Moore's small fortune.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 30, 2005 ;     77 words ......Moore has sold for a record [pounds sterling]1million. Mother and Child, described by the late artist as 'one of my best earlier pieces', was snapped up by a private collector in London for [pounds sterling]1,069,600. It was carved from marble in 1931 and...