Man About Town
In n + 1 (online) | 2025Passing from banishment from the city into spaces custom-built to accommodate it, Serra’s oeuvre spanned the art globe, and concerns with materials, form, processes, monuments, manliness, labor, spectacle, architecture, institutions, experience. Overdetermined, overwrought in its own way (pun intended, though the material in question was so often steel, forged or rolled), as the work and its artist formally pass into the space of history, what kind of space does Serra take up in it?
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Arts, Public Space, Writing
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