{"id":857,"date":"2008-08-25T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/big-serra-on-the-big-screen\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T16:31:21","slug":"big-serra-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/25\/big-serra-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Serra on The Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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MOVIE REVIEW<\/p>\n

Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet<\/h1>\n

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Lorenz Kienzle<\/p>\n

Richard Serra\u2019s sculpture \u201cSequence,\u201d on display in Germany.<\/p>\n

Watching as Richard Serra Thinks Big and Does Big<\/span><\/p>\n

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS<\/p>\n

Listening to Richard Serra talk about sculpture is like listening to Russell Crowe talk about acting: after a while you feel you\u2019re either in the presence of genius or the victim of an elaborate con.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for both, their work speaks for itself. \u201cRichard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet\u201d follows the construction and 2005 installation of \u201cThe Matter of Time,\u201d the sculptor\u2019s gigantic, eight-piece commission for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain. (No rush: it\u2019s guaranteed to be there for at least another 22 years.) As static and unadorned as the sculptures themselves, the movie gazes with rapt attention as Mr. Serra expounds on his love of steel mills (\u201cLike bakeries that have gone into alchemy\u201d) and as he maps the complex layout of each piece with tape measure and paper templates. Perhaps he distrusts 3-D computer software?<\/p>\n

Operating at the intersection of art and industrial engineering, Mr. Serra \u2014 whose father worked in shipyards and whose sculptures can suggest the inverted hulls of tankers \u2014 is an informative if unanimated guide. Leading us through the massive metal spirals and gracefully curved rectangles that seem to defy gravity, he explains the spatial philosophy behind each mind-boggling piece (\u201cWe start with the void\u201d), but all I could think was how the Lilliputians must have felt when confronted by one of Gulliver\u2019s discarded apple peels. The style may be minimalist, but the vision is gargantuan.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full review at the NY Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times MOVIE REVIEW Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet Lorenz Kienzle Richard Serra\u2019s sculpture \u201cSequence,\u201d on display in Germany. Watching as Richard Serra Thinks Big and Does Big By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS Listening to Richard Serra talk about sculpture is like listening to Russell Crowe talk about acting: after a while you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}