Richard Serra
Richard Serra (1939–2024), born in San Francisco, California, lived and worked in New York City and on Cape Breton Island, Canada. He was one of the most influential sculptors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, known for his monumental steel works that redefine space, gravity, and viewer experience. Grounded in process and materiality, Serra’s art often engages directly with architecture and the human body, inviting movement and embodied perception. His large-scale, site-specific installations – composed of curved, tilted, or torqued steel plates – generate powerful tensions between weight, balance, and form. Alongside sculpture, Serra produced a major body of drawing and print work, particularly with dense black pigment, bringing a comparable physicality to the two-dimensional plane. Whether in steel, film, or ink, Serra consistently challenged traditional notions of composition, permanence, and the role of the viewer – leaving a lasting legacy on contemporary art.
out-of-round X
1999/2008
Published for Kunsthaus Bregenz
Novaton printing (duo-tone with paint) on heavy Tintoretto-Gesso paper, 68.2 x 59.4 cm (27 x 23½ in). Edition of 251, signed, not numbered.
Richard Serra’s edition out-of-round X is a powerful embodiment of his investigation into weight, surface, and process. Based on his out-of-round drawing series, the print captures the dense materiality of the original medium – black paintstick – through a specialised printing technique that evokes the same tactile intensity. In the original drawings, Serra applied oil stick through a window screen onto paper laid flat on the floor, using gravity and compression to build up irregular, weighty surfaces. As Serra explained, “the compression of the materials is achieved with a gravitational load that is bearing down on them.” That same sense of physical force and accumulation is present here: the black form is not a perfect circle but one shaped by pressure and resistance, surrounded by a textured halo of uneven edge. In this way, the print doesn’t merely reproduce a form – it reconstructs a process, inviting the viewer to sense the presence of matter, movement, and time.
Schellmann Art published this print for Kunsthaus Bregenz on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition Richard Serra: Drawings – Work Comes Out of Work, 2008.
EUR 3,500
