I know Richard Serra has a great history as an American minimalist sculptor, but the show was a yawner. For me, this kind of large-scale minimalist work is only interesting in large metropolitan plaza’s. With busy people walking through and around it during lunch hour, kids playing on it, pigeons perched on top of it and the bustling, dirty city sounds echoing off of it (and maybe some skaters skating on it.) Take that same piece and put in a sterile, stuffy white room with some sterile, stuffy white people and you have no contrast; minimalism on minimalism and thats no fun. Here is my review of the show:
Posted by Geezer on September 07, 2007 at 10:07 PM
