Is Richard Serra’s Legacy Crushing His Brilliance?
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"In case you don’t already know it, Richard Serra is a very famous sculptor.
A historically important artist who both ushered in and defined post-minimal art in the late sixties and early seventies, Mr. Serra has been dropping his heavy artistic imprint literally across the globe ever since, planting large-scale steel commissions everywhere from the desert sands of Qatar to a remote patch of soil off the coast of Iceland.
But some of Mr. Serra’s earliest works were actually radical performances (inspired by the “action” painting of Jackson Pollock) in which he hurled molten lead at the corner of the gallery between the wall and the floor, creating long wedges of hardened steel. Those works became the very definition of what is now commonly referred to as “process art.”"
