Richard Serra:
Circle, Diamond, Triangle

About the Exhibition

Duration： September 30 – January 27, 2024
Location: Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo

The weight of a drawing derives not only from the number of layers of paintstick but mainly from the particular shape of the drawing. It is obvious – from Mantegna’s Christ to Cezanne’s apples – that shapes can imply weight, mass and volume. A square carries more weight – gravitationally –than a rectangle: a trapezoid, more than a diamond. A triangle is a light, very quick shape.

-Richard Serra

Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo is proud to present an exhibition of installation drawings by Richard Serra. The exhibition will be on view from September 30th to January 27th, 2024.

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Publication

Conversations about Sculpture by Richard Serra and Hal Foster

Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume offers revelations into Serra’s prolific six-decade career and the ideas that have informed his working practice. Conversations about Sculpture is both an intimate look at Serra’s life and . . .

Richard Serra Hal Foster
彫刻についての対談

リチャード・セラとは1980年代初頭、ロウアー・マンハッタンのオデオンで知り合った。あのレストランがまだ辺りに住むアーティストや作家たちの集まるレストランだった頃のことである。私は20代後半、セラもまだ40代半ばだったが、彼はすでに名が知れていたので私は緊張していた。セラは鋭い論客として名高く、それも私を身構えさせた。と同時に、彼が若い批評家などと話したがるのを . . .

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Richard Serra in Japan

Serra Installing Rio Rounds

at Centro de Arte Héllo Oiticia, Rio de Janeiro, 1997

^{Images: Richard Serra installing Rio Rounds at Centro de Arte Héllo Oiticia, Rio de Janeiro, 1997. Photographer: Márcia Foletto.}

Richard Serra:Circle, Diamond, Triangle