ART CORNER
RICHARD SERRA
BORN NOV 2, 1939, SAN FRANCISCO
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* Was destroyed after repeated complaints from people employed in the building behind it; because of the size and placement, they were forced to walk around it to the building's entrance. Our compulsion to do everything in a straight line is so strong that the workers were made deeply uncomfortable and frustrated by that slight extra bit of walking. All of his work is extremely visceral due to size and positioning (gigantic sheets of steel propped up precariously - you feel fear next to a Serra piece), but "Tilted Arc" in particular was such an intense sucker-punch that they actually had to take it down.
BORN NOV 2, 1939, SAN FRANCISCO
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* Was destroyed after repeated complaints from people employed in the building behind it; because of the size and placement, they were forced to walk around it to the building's entrance. Our compulsion to do everything in a straight line is so strong that the workers were made deeply uncomfortable and frustrated by that slight extra bit of walking. All of his work is extremely visceral due to size and positioning (gigantic sheets of steel propped up precariously - you feel fear next to a Serra piece), but "Tilted Arc" in particular was such an intense sucker-punch that they actually had to take it down.