Public Art at the Kunsthalle – Richard Serra: Untitled Sculpture

Richard Serra: Untitled Sculpture

"I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct." Guided by this conviction, the American sculptor Richard Serra conceived a two-part steel sculpture on the hillside adjacent to the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.

The height and length of the 5 cm-thick steel plates are determined by the scale and slope of the descending terrain. Installed vertically and at right angles to the road, the elements are stacked parallel to one another and meet at a single point on the level of the path that divides the hillside into two halves.

The sculpture was included in one of the first exhibitions of Serra’s sculptures, films, and drawings to be presented in a European museum (Baden-Baden, 1978).