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Published ReferencesAN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. pp.35 & 251, b/w detail p.251, color detail pp.250 & 251
DMAC News, July/Aug. 1994, cover ill.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE, in article written by Mary Kay Wilcox, American Society of Landscape Architects, June 2003
This site-specific sculpture by Richard Serra has been installed on the grassy area between Grand Avenue and the main driveway of the Art Center. The sculpture consists of six rough-hewn granite block quarried in Sweden. It takes its cue from the site itself, with the elements and the distances between being of equal importance and is meant to be experienced by walking through the site as well as driving by.
Serra directly involves the viewer in the experience of the materials, the definition of space, and the process of his sculpture. This is the first environmental sculpture for exterior spaces adjacent to the Art Center.
Source: News, November December 1989.
Published ReferencesAN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. pp.35 & 251, b/w detail p.251, color detail pp.250 & 251
DMAC News, July/Aug. 1994, cover ill.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE, in article written by Mary Kay Wilcox, American Society of Landscape Architects, June 2003
DimensionsLarge: 4.5 × 559.9 × 100 ft. (1.4 × 170.7 × 30.5 m.)
Accession Number 1989.5.a-.f
Classificationssculpture
CopyrightSerra is protected by ARS
EditionUNIQUE
ProvenanceArtist; (Pace Gallery, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from previous, 1989]
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