Richard Serra, the great contemporary sculptor of monumental works to cross over, has left us

Richard Serra has left us: the great contemporary sculptor famous for his monumental, often curvilinear works in steel or iron within which the public can step inside and experience them from multiple points of view has passed away at the age of 85 at his home in Orient, New York state. Cause of death, according to his lawyer in the notice of his passing, would be pneumonia.

Born in San Francisco in 1938, the artist attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1961 with a degree in English literature. Serra went on to earn his MFA at the Yale School of Art. Today, his work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Bilbao, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Art Biennale in 2001, Richard Serra is considered a master of Minimalism and creator of a new concept of monumentality. In fact, his works are closely linked to the relationship with the public and the environment that surrounds them. Since the 1960s, he has turned his attention to materials of industrial origin and their physical properties, and his art has always focused on manufacturing processes and the characteristics of the material of which the work itself is composed, as well as on a complex relationship with the surrounding space and the viewer. It is precisely this attention to materiality that has been the hallmark of his practice.

His best-known works include Torqued Ellipse, Tilted Arc, Thirty-five Foot of Lead Rolled Up, One Ton Prop: House of Cards, and his urban interventions include Sight Point installed at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Fulcrum on Liverpool Street in London, and 7 in the park of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha: the latter, over 21 meters high, is not only the tallest public work in Qatar, but also the tallest artwork ever created by Richard Serra. It is a steel tribute to the spiritual significance of the number seven in Islamic culture.

Richard Serra, the great contemporary sculptor of monumental works to cross over, has left us

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