Circuit (from the Gemini Series)

Richard Serra is a major American sculptor with no peer working in heavy metal.  It was Serra, with his ability to involve the human body as a participant in his work--demanding something more from a spectator than the sole act of looking, and yet harshly rewarding the eye as well--who began in the 1960s to rescue sculpture from the dematerializing effects of Minimalism. His work has always demanded reaction. Tilted Arc, 1981, a 120-ft. steel wall running across Federal Plaza in New York City, was taken down after its intrusiveness provoked a hailstorm of public controversy. Statement, Robert Hughes, Time Magazine, Oct. 19, 1998, vol. 152, no.16.