Sentences with phrase «torqued ellipses»

Richard Serra: «New Sculpture» (through Feb. 8, and March 15) In this show running at two branches of the Gagosian Gallery, Richard Serra continues along the road that emerged from the hugely successful «Torqued Ellipses» of the 1990s, but also circles back to his earlier oeuvre.

Richard Serra: «New Sculpture» (closes on Saturday) In this show running at two branches of the Gagosian Gallery, Richard Serra continues along the road that emerged from the hugely successful «Torqued Ellipses» of the 1990s, but also circles back to his earlier oeuvre.

In 1997 — 98, his «Torqued Ellipses» were exhibited at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York.

But their Dia: Beacon presentation reveals a new dimension of the «Torqued Ellipses.»

Even the four giant «Torqued Ellipses» by Richard Serra, placed in the factory building's skylightless former freight car shed, reveal themselves anew beneath a single row of high, west - facing windows.

Viewers may recognize certain of these sculptural forms in the prints: the titular elements of his Torqued Ellipses, the arcing forms of My Curves Are Not Mad, or the planar regularity of Inverted House of Cards, the last two works in the Nasher Collection which will be on view during the show.

Recognizable for their patina — Serra's favorite material is rolled Cor - Ten steel with an evenly rusted surface — as much as for their size, sculptures like Torqued Ellipses (1996 - 1997) at the Dia: Beacon count among the previous century's most iconic artworks.

Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses - widely and rightly championed - prove it is still possible to make great art.

Richard Serra: «New Sculpture» (closes on Saturday) In this show, Richard Serra continues along the road that emerged from the hugely successful «Torqued Ellipses» of the 1990s, but also circles back to his earlier oeuvre.

However, it was not the gargantuan «Torqued Ellipses» by Richard Serra that stuck it to the man — his work is sold by world - renowned powerhouse Gagosian Gallery — but the cackling faux - bird audio «Birdcalls» (1972/1981) by pioneer sound artist Louise Lawler resonating throughout the cherry blossom west garden that really put the art market in a quandary.

The Torqued Ellipses constrain the viewer who enters, pressing one to follow the designed path.

His Torqued Ellipses made about twenty years ago invited you to enter menacing constructions, walking through, going between high narrow curving walls of steel tilting inward or outward.

While the Torqued Ellipses were highly complex spatial constructions (the product of highly sophisticated computer guided construction techniques), Four Rounds uses simple cylindrical forms to create complex visual experiences.

Speaking of Richard Serra, I had been wondering what the Modern would do with massive Torqued Ellipses recently on display at New York City's Dia Arts Center before moving permanently to Dia in Beacon.

A sculpture preceding Torqued Ellipses was titled Snake (Sugea), and was made between 1994 and 1997.

Both Snake and the Torqued Ellipses seem to defy gravity and logic, making solid metal appear as malleable as felt.

Long before his Torqued Ellipses, Richard Serra left heaps of torn rubber, while Elizabeth Murray both shaped and split canvas.

And that counts just one floor, quite apart from a mezzanine of Torqued Ellipses by Richard Serra, a floor apiece for Louise Bourgeois and Bruce Nauman, and the west garden, with its bird calls by Louise Lawler mocking the collection's predominance of male artists.

Sure, before his Torqued Ellipses, Richard Serra had tossed off shards of rubber like old carpeting during the renovation of a Soho loft.

In their first Chelsea exhibition, Serra's Torqued Ellipses felt like a fantastic public space for children to play, and a later exhibition grew more dangerously public, like a maze.

Serra's Torqued Ellipses are back on view at last, as are oil - slick murals, face to face along a narrow chamber.