
1995
Etching with aquatint
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
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