ArcelorMittal steel for monument by Richard Serra (France)
American artist Richard Serra has created a sculpture for ‘Monumenta’, a new contemporary art event providing leading international artists with the opportunity to engage with the great steel-and-glass nave of Paris’s Grand Palais.
This sculpture was realised within the workshops of Industeel, an ArcelorMittal Group company in Loire, France. Industeel is the only factory in the world able to produce the 70 ton steel elements which will make up the artwork, as these demand an extremely fine and complicated technology.
This is the second time that Richard Serra has placed such an ‘order’ with ArcelorMittal. The artist remains discrete concerning the sculpture which will astonish people by its dimensions and the industrial processes required in its implementation.
All that is known is that it will be baptised ‘Promenade’ and that it will fill up the nave to a height of 17 meters. The piece will be the subject of an exceptional convoy towards Paris at the end of April 2008 and will be displayed in May 2008.
Photo: Fulcrum (1987) by Richard Serra, Liverpool Street station, London
2 comments
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October 31st, 2007 by Fernando Araguas
Manufacture of steel is a work of art.
To identify with a sculpture is a achievement.
It is interesting to make it in other countries with local artists.
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December 16th, 2007 by Paolo
As someone who works by Liverpool Street and sees it every day I must\ say that this is a truly ugly sculpture, a blight on the lives of everyone in the area
Paolo
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