By Richard Serra, The Guggenheim, 1994-1997 https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/3
- Richard Serra has long been acclaimed for his challenging and innovative work, which emphasizes the process of its fabrication, characteristics of materials, and engagement with viewer and site.
- Snake, a work made for the inauguration of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, consists of three enormous, serpentine ribbons of hot-rolled steel that are permanently installed in the museum’s “Fish” gallery.
- Although it weighs around 180 tons, the colossal work is experienced through its negative spaces.
- Shifting in unexpected ways as viewers walk in and around them, these sculptures create surprising experiences of space and balance, and provoke a dizzying sensation of steel and space in motion.
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This artwork is beneficial to my research because it engages viewers with the piece. This idea could be applied to my research by designing a wa to engage researchers with the space using form.
