David Zwirner exhibits new works by Richard Serra Richard Serra - Up the River - 2021 From May 4 through July 15, 2022, David Zwirner will present in New York a new sculpture in forged steel and a new series of drawings by artist Richard Serra. Source: David Zwirner · Image: Richard Serra, "Up the River", 2021 Richard Serra (San Francisco, 1939) is considered one of the most important sculptors of recent decades, known primarily for his large-scale steel sculptures, often conceived for outdoor installation. In a press release, David Zwirner explains that since his first solo museum exhibition, at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1970, Serra "has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987) in Kassel, Germany; the Venice Biennales of 1980, 1984, 2001, and 2013; and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Annual and Biennial exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1995, and 2006," adding that "in 2005, 'The Matter of Time,' a series of eight large-scale works by Serra from 1994 to 2005, was installed permanently at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and in 2007, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented the retrospective Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years. ‘Promenade’, a major site-specific installation, was shown at the Grand Palais, Paris, for MONUMENTA 2008. In 2011, the artist’s large-scale, site-specific sculpture 7 was permanently installed opposite the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. In 2014, the Qatar Museum Authority presented a two-venue retrospective survey of Serra’s work at the QMA Gallery and the Al Riwaq exhibition space, Doha, and East-West/West-East, 2014, was permanently installed in the Brouq Nature Reserve in the Zekreet Desert, Qatar. In June 2020, a new major sculpture by Serra was installed on the West Quad of Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. In spring/summer of 2022, the Glenstone museum in Potomac, Maryland, will unveil a new building specially conceived to house a recent large-scale forged steel sculpture by Serra." His facet as a draftsman is less well known, despite which his drawings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, from one organized in 1977 by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to "Serra/Seurat. Drawings", announced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao for June of this year.

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