Serra's Band
Philanthropist Eli Broad and his wife have purchased a monumental sculpture from Richard Serra for the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum, which will open in February 2008 as part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The sculpture entitled Band (2006) is currently exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art's Serra retrospective, which opened on June 3. Band is among Serra's most elaborate works, with alternating interior and exterior spaces, created by ten steel plates standing nearly thirteen feet high and weighing a total of 183 tons.
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The time and afford that was created building this art within the space,of the actual structure is amazing. Creating bands which seem not to have an end nor a beginning; reminds me the rope of art we studied in class. The illusion that is set off in the bands the viewer believes a new space is created each time the journey is taken place. I think it is a illusion of the mind the artist has created, for the viewer.
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