Richard Serra's Sea Level (1996) is located on Kastanjelaan in Zeewolde, The Netherlands. Once you can look over the wall again, walking in the other direction, it feels as if you are coming back up for air. Walking past that cold concrete, you can get the oppressive feeling that you are ‘going under’. If the dikes were to break, the water would reach the top of the walls. Richard Serra, (born November 2, 1939, San Francisco, California, U.S.), American sculptor who is best known for his large-scale abstract steel sculptures, whose substantial presence forces viewers to engage with the physical qualities of the works and their particular sites. This makes the walls look like wedges, yet they are level in the sloping landscape.
On the waterfront, the park’s lowest point, the walls are a few metres high on the other side, they disappear into the slope. At its unveiling in 1996, Sea Level was Serra’s largest work of art in Europe, with a total length of 600 meters. In the early 1960s, Serra and the Minimalist artists of his generation turned to unconventional, industrial materials and began. 1938) has long been acclaimed for his challenging and innovative work, which emphasizes materiality and an engagement between the viewer, the site, and the work. Located on either side of the water, one is a continuation of the other and they are each 200 meters long and stand 200 meters apart. One of the preeminent sculptors of our era, Richard Serra (American, b.
While working in steel mills to support himself, Serra entered the University of California. Serra, best known for his large works of art made of Corten steel, erected two concrete walls in national park De Wetering. Richard Serra was born November 2, 1939, in San Francisco. In Zeewolde, Serra’s Sea Level (1996) shows how high the sea used to be here. American artist Richard Serra (1939) was fascinated when he discovered that the level of the water of the surrounding lakes was higher than the ground in Zeewolde, and that people were actually walking on the bottom of the sea.
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