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Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQatar), in association with the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA), is presenting American sculptor Richard Serra through a lecture and exhibitions in Doha. |
The lecture by Serra, one of the most significant artists of his generation, will take place at the VCUQatar atrium at 12noon tomorrow (April 10). It is open to the public.
The lecture will focus on Serra’s bodies of work in sculpture and drawing, including his large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings, which have been celebrated around the globe.
Serra’s work has been shown in numerous museum solo exhibitions such as in Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1977; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1984; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986 and again in 2007; as well as in other museums in Europe, the US and Latin America.
Serra has participated in several Documenta in Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982 and 1987) and in the Venice Biennales of 1984, 2001 and 2013. In 2005, eight large-scale works were installed permanently at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. A travelling survey of Serra’s drawings was on view in 2011-12 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Menil
Collection, Houston.
Spanning the past 40 years, Serra has received a number of important public and private commissions worldwide, many of them permanent, such as 7 for the Museum of Islamic Art Park and East-West/West-East for the Brouq Nature Reserve that opened in April 2014.
QMA has invited Serra to exhibit in two cultural spaces in Doha - at the Al Riwaq Doha Exhibition space, where visitors will be able to experience “Passage of Time” conceived specifically for the space, and at the QMA Gallery in Katara – the Cultural Village, where a selection of seven sculptures and four large drawings reflects the main stages in the development of Serra’s work.
The exhibitions are curated by Alfred Pacquement, honorary director of the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou (Paris), and will run from
tomorrow until July 6.
