Circuit, 1972/89

Massive rolled steel, 4 steel plates

354 x 796 x 3.2 cm each

The structure, in which the circuit is installed, was built especially for this artifice. A first version of the work in which the size of the steel plates were different, was realized at the Documenta 5, 1972 in Kassel. Another version, again of a different size is to be found in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

"I am interested in sculptures which do not serve the principal of usability, sculptures without a function. Using is always abusing. They often accuse abstract art of not having socially significant messages. I have always thought that art does not need an external justification ... I am aware of the fact that there is no audience for sculptures ... But there is a huge audience for products which give the people what they want, and what they – as it is insinuated – need, and which do not offer more than what the audience can understand."

Richard Serra

Born 1939 in San Francisco, USA.

Lives and works in New York, and Nova Scotia, Canada.