Richard Serra at MoMA

Richard Serra at MoMA - Torqued Torus Inversion and Sequence

This YouTube video [link included since embedding may not be working or the code changes - Dec. 21/07] shows one of the five "MoMAvideos" of works by Richard Serra currently showing on YouTube. There are thirty videos there altogether, as of today. If you want to see a better quality video, go to the Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years site. MoMA has done an excellent online presentation for the exhibit. Since the actual show closed on September 10, this is the only way anyone is going to get to see it from now on.

The site has walkthroughs and dialogue between Serra and the interviewer, often providing a feel of what it would be like to be inside the sculpture. Many pictures of the works on the website, no matter the actual location, have an accompanying discussion by Serra, which provides context for the work, and his reasons for using the materials, how he found them and put them together.

The site has fairly good navigation, although I found that titles sometimes stayed on the screen and got in the way of the images. My quibble would be that not all of the images are in colour. I would have been happier to see the colours of the works, especially when Serra talks about texture and appearance.