http://artobserved.com/2008/10/go-see-richard-serra-sculpture-at-gagosian-gallery-london-through-december-20-2008/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://artobserved.com/2008/10/go-see-richard-serra-sculpture-at-gagosian-gallery-london-through-december-20-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 Jonathan Polkest Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:13:56 +0000 http://artobserved.com/?p=3674#comment-2141 After visiting Serra's work in Bilbao and hearing his interview on BBC R4 I will definately visit the Gasosian exhibition for the sheer sense of scale alone, but the core connections from classicism to the sensibilities of modernity seem to give an expression to "the individual's interior concerns" either by resisting the extraordinary surfaces or by being absorbed into them, the experience is compelling. The work carries something fearfully primal but astonishingly timeless. After visiting Serra’s work in Bilbao and hearing his interview on BBC R4 I will definately visit the Gasosian exhibition for the sheer sense of scale alone, but the core connections from classicism to the sensibilities of modernity seem to give an expression to “the individual’s interior concerns” either by resisting the extraordinary surfaces or by being absorbed into them, the experience is compelling. The work carries something fearfully primal but astonishingly timeless.

]]>