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Filmed in 2000 at Richard Serra's Manhattan studio, the artist describes the various tools and conceptual strategies he has used throughout his career when working with lead and steel. Serra discusses his early focus on the nature of the art production process itself which resulted in his writing a Verb List (1967-68).

Multiple lead works that resulted from Serra acting out the Verb List are shown through archival images. Serra's invention of a tool that twisted sheet metal around a wheel enabled him to shape steel in a new way-from the inside out. Torqued Ellipses (1996-97), which resulted from this process, are shown at Dia:Beacon in 2004.

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Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins & Catherine Tatge. Camera: Ken Kobland & Pete Shanel. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York & Dia Art Foundation. Theme Music: Peter Foley.

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Richard Serra's early work in the 1960s focused on the industrial materials that he had worked with as a youth in West Coast steel mills and shipyards: steel and lead. Since those Minimalist beginnings, Serra's work has become famous for that same physicality-but one that is now compounded by the breathtaking size and weight that the pieces have acquired. His series of Torqued Ellipses (1996-99)-which comprise gigantic plates of towering steel, bent and curved, leaning in and out-carve very private spaces from the necessarily large public sites in which they have been erected.

Interview

Richard Serra discusses his earliest interests as an artist and how he spontaneously named his large-scale installation in San Francisco Charlie Brown.

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Tools & Strategies, Richard Serra - Art21

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Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21's mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists.

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Go through a series of prompt by Brian Eno, to give you ways of working that you wouldn't have considered ...

http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

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Make variations of your final idea, you can select out what to present. Showing you have tried different compositions, scales, refined ideas and then why and how you have selected your final idea are important factors both in creating a successful show, but also when you are assessed

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Make the most of the workshops, take sketches or models to the workshops and see how you can translate these ideas through different processes in the workshop

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Make models in different materials and then try to make them in the workshops

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Lubauna Himid| A Full House

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Photograph Your Work From Different Angles

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Photograph Your Work From Different Angles

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Bridget Riley| Archives of Women Artists

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Think About  Different Ways Of Recording Research

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Think About  Different Ways Of Recording Research

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As I said last week- I have started making drawing/mark making tools. Quite quick things – mainly tied as I try and avoid using glue or tape to join things. The lack of control has been inter…

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Gather

(Types of object images to gather)

Think about what you can collect to help broaden your ideas for the project

Write down 15 words that relate to the project theme

Gather 5 objects you could draw

Find 5 books in the library that relate to each idea

Find 5 books in the library of artist work that you have never looked at before, that links in any way at all to any of your ideas

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Do Ho Suh | Rubbing/Loving Project: Unit 2, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2014

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Rubbing/Loving Project: Unit 2, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA by Do Ho Suh

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Explore 10 Different Types Of Mark Making

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Explore 10 Different Types Of Mark Making

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Jen Sterk| Paper Sculpture

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Make (Ways of making)

Think about the shapes forms or words that are part of your project at the moment

Could develop these Ideas different materials Try making one shape from your research ideas in cardboard boxes, clean white card, paper, wood,

wire, plaster, fabric. Could you choose one material, but see how many different ways you can construct the

shape,

fabricate from sheet material, how are the different sides connected? Glue,

tape, tabs, pins, stitches

cast

modelled from clay

constructed from found objects / mixed materials

https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2005/01/30/beauty-and-waste-in-the-architecture-of-herzog-

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Fill Up A Small  Sketchbook With Drawings

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Fill Up A Small  Sketchbook With Drawings

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How would your idea be transformed if you made it so small it would fit in your hand, or the same size as your sketchbook, fill your desk, make the shape human scale or sit on top of a building.

You could test out scale using collage, the photocopier or photoshop

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Visit Somewhere You Have Never Been Before

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Visit Somewhere You Have Never Been Before

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Try Some Different Approaches To Research

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Try Some Different Approaches To Research