Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
June 3–September 10, 2007
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, first floor
Contemporary Galleries, second floor
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Galleries, sixth floor
Watch video of Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992) being installed in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden:
Richard Serra's works share an artistic kinship with Frank Gehry's bold architectural shapes. Both have collaborated on several projects, including a 1996 proposal for the Financial Times Millennium Bridge Competition in London.
One of Richard Serra’s sculptures is "The Hedgehog and the Fox," which is owned and located at Princeton University. Like many of his other works, the sculpture demands the observer to momentarily reflect and capture life's lessons in a space-time continuum.
The title of the sculpture, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," alludes to an essay by Isaiah Berlin, who quotes from the Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one great thing." Serra explained, "It points to how scholars either become free thinkers and invent or become subjugated to the dictates of history. This is the classical problem posed to every student."
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