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Richard Serra, an American sculptor, redefined the boundaries of contemporary art with his monumental steel sculptures and immersive installations. Known for his minimalist aesthetic and exploration of space, scale, and materiality, Serra's works challenge viewers to confront their physical surroundings in new and unexpected ways. From his iconic "Tilted Arc" to his labyrinthine "Torqued Ellipses," Serra's sculptures provoke dialogue and inspire contemplation, leaving a profound impact on the landscape of modern art and architecture.
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"But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play."

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"Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease."

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"I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work."

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"Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work."

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"If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day."

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"I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer."

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"The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me."

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"They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is."

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"I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here."

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"And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public."

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"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."

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"But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself."

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"I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work."

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"On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton."

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"Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it."

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"I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment."

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