Richard Serra, Plate 2 from The Venice Notebook

Richard Serra (1939 - 2024)
Plate 2, from Venice Notebook 2001 (Gemini 1910; 1911; 1914), 2002
Etching on Fabriano Tiepolo paper
Signed in pencil
Dated and numbered 40/60, (there were also 10 artist's proofs)
With the blindstamp of the publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Plate size: 12 x 13 7/8in (30.5 x 35.2cm) Full sheet 16 x 18in (40.6 x 45.7cm)

*Framed with no acrylic or glass. Gemini G.E.L. administered a protective acrylic spray so that a full and unobstructed view of the quality of the etching and inks could be experienced. 

In the Venice Notebook etchings, executed in connection with his installation at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Serra continues to expand the physicality and formal considerations of his prints as they relate to his minimal, monumental sculpture. Serra viewed the two Torqued Ellipse sculptures from a lift high above them and recorded their various shapes and compositions from different angles in his notebook as studies.