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Richard Serra  born 1939

Richard Serra Trip Hammer 1988
© ARS, NY and DACS, London 2002
Trip Hammer  1988

Steel
unconfirmed: 2743 x 3315 x 1346 mm
sculpture

Presented by the Douglas S. Cramer Foundation 1997

T07350

Two sheets of steel are delicately balanced. One stands upright, 2.6 m high and 1.3 m deep, and balances on an edge 5 cm wide. The other rests horizontally on this thin edge, with its only other means of support provided by its minimum contact with the wall. This large, heavy work dominates the space in which in stands, both physically and psychologically through the anxiety it provokes in the viewer.

 (From the display caption April 2009)