Steel is first among Richard Serra's preferred materials. Metal is enormously important in Serra's work – the artist worked in a steel foundry as a young man, and has shown a extraordinary fascination for the medium (as with lead and rubber, early in his career), a far cry from the 'noble' materials of classical sculpture. A key material for the construction industry, steel dates back to the industrial revolution, since when it has fostered a host of manufacturing techniques and applications. Steel has become emblematic of the march of modernity, of 'work in progress'. Steel is used in a host of different ways by a number of artists, but has found a completely new set of uses in Richard Serra's highly distinctive work, shaped and defined as it is by the medium's composition and colour, but above all by its unique formal qualities, and its capacity to be deployed in space.
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