Monumenta 2008 - Gravity, mass and balance

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Gravity, mass and balance

What are the natural laws of physics brought into play by Richard Serra's works? How does he use them to create effects of balance? The massive, monumental nature of many of Richard Serra's sculptures, their spectacular weight, the play of twisting or majestic, angular steel forms constitute a perpetual challenge to the laws of gravity. Each work of sculpture seems to take the material's inherent interplay of forces further still, as if the piece were indeed shaped and held together by the energy and forces contained within it. As Richard Serra has said: "Weight is a value for me, not that it is any more compelling than lightness, but I simply know more about weight than lightness." By playing on weight, Richard Serra creates space; by playing on mass, he reconfigures the spaces that host his sculptures.

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