The highly-anticipated Richard Serra show Sculpture is currently on display at the Gagosian Gallery's King's Cross space in London, and I've been actively imagining what it must be like to walk through the artist's vast steel structures as they inhabit those rooms. Sean O'Hagan talked to Serra about TTI London, pictured right, that is set up in the main gallery:
'Those two pieces are collecting the space in certain ways,' Serra
tells me when we meet at the gallery. One suspects he could talk all
day about the abstract geometry of spheres, reversed curves and torqued
ellipses. 'In one, you sense the volume moving out like a giant
flowerpot, or moving in like a giant lampshade. It's all about
centralising the space in different ways. How people move in relation
to space, that's essentially what I'm up to.'
Me, I'm still trying to figure out how they got everything into the gallery. You can see more pictures of the sculptures in the show here.