On Monday Amy and Liz and Kathy and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and had a great time. Near the end of our visit, I stumbled across Richard Serra’s “Band” and it is stunning! It is fabricated from 2” thick steel, and 12 feet tall and 77 feet long, wrapping around in circles with leaning walls. It is absolutely stunning to look at and walk around, and then going inside is even more amazing. It weights 200 tons and all that weight is something you feel as you walk around the outside and then enter the inner spaces. "Band" is a monumental piece of sculpture and a joy to behold. Because it is so massive a sculpture, it has such great power.
4 comments:
Wow! Thanks for being in the photo to give us more perspective. Amazing. Glad you enjoyed your day at the museum. Joan
The top photo gives the sense of immense size! Nice to see you in the last photo :-) Betsey
Wow! An amazing piece of artistic creation!
I've seen and walked around a similar piece by Richard Serra at "The Dia" in Beacon NY. Yes, absolutely amazing. The curvature & tilt of the steel captures the illusion of being just at the edge of the ellipse, which isn't the edge at all,
but continues just out of reach. It's absolute perfection in steel.
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