Name: BRANCUSI / SERRA
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BRANCUSI / SERRA

300,00 kr.

“In recent years, critics and curators have pursued fascinating lines of analogy and sympathy between the sculptural oeuvres of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Richard Serra (born 1939). Foremost among these shared qualities is the awareness of surrounding space both sculptors foster in the viewer, compelling a spatial encounter in which the sculpture resonates well beyond its own formal achievements. Serra and Brancusi also enjoy a mutual fascination with stacking elements, with spreading and concentrating forms and with stressing weight and material. But the distinctions between their oeuvres are also very telling: where Brancusi plays with the function of the base in his sculptures, making them an integral component of the work, Serra rejects the base altogether and uses the floor, walls and surrounding architecture as part of his enterprise. Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra: Resting in Time and Space explores this retroactive art-historical conversation by juxtaposing 35 key Brancusis with a selection of Serras from across the artist’s career. Key works in marble, bronze, wood and plaster are oriented within the themes outlined above, which position the oeuvres of Brancusi and Serra as the purest and most innovative articulations of abstract sculpture of the past century”

Description

Edited by Oliver Wick: BRANCUSI / SERRA. Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra: A Handbook of Possibilities. English Version. Hatje Cantz, 2011. Large very heavy 4to hardcover with jacket. 243, (1) pages with more than 100 illustrations, partly in color. Light shelfwear to jacke else overall a very good or near fine copy

First edition

In 1964 and 1965, Serra had a revelation when he visited the reconstruction of Brancusi’s workshop in Paris, which had just opened to the public. The young artist visited the reconstructed studio daily, making numerous drawings in an effort to capture the atmosphere and essence underlying Brancusi’s works, which played a fundamental role in his development as an artist. Today, Serra is still fascinated by the way Brancusi drew his volumes: “I think the implications and strength of Brancusi and his work has been deemphasized by putting the entire focus on the stylized bronzes. This ignores how radical he really was in terms of casting and carving, and the fact that he was able to break away from the formalism of the pedestal” (Serra)