W.M. (Weights and Measures)

Richard Serra

1995

Etching with aquatint

Dallas Museum of Art

These works by Richard Serra are part of his series called “Weights and Measures”, which exists in various forms: sculpture, drawings, and prints. Serra installed the “Weight and Measure” sculpture, which consisted of two similar-looking but in fact very differently scaled steel rectangles, in a long central hall at the Tate Gallery in London, using the axis of the hallway to play off a viewer’s variable perception of distance, size and matter. In a similar way, Serra’s prints and drawings of the series are complex (though simple-looking) renderings of how we see one form dealing with another in space, and all that this metaphor imp