CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/28/2014

Richard Serra: Early Work

Richard Serra's early lead sculpture, "Bent Pipe Roll" (1968), photographed by Peter Moore, is reproduced from David Zwirner and Steidl's definitive and stunning new monograph, Richard Serra: Early Work, covering the groundbreaking years 1966-72. Essayist Hal Foster writes, "What is it to be upright—as a body, as a structure—in a world of gravity? What is it to free-stand if we assume, for a moment, that verticality is not a given but a goal? As the basis of the sculpture shifts from a logic of materials to axiomatic principles of building, Serra activates our own 'kinaesthetic apprehension' (as Dan Graham described it early on), an apprehension in which the body is engaged as a kind of architecture and vice versa."