Cinema
Richard Serra
Program 3
08 Jan 2022
The event is over
From 5 to 9 January 2022, the Centre Pompidou presents, for the first time in Europe, a complete retrospective of films and videos by American artist Richard Serra. Organised with the assistance of the Galerie Gagosian – currently showing Transmitter, a new monumental sculpture by Richard Serra, in its Le Bourget space – this retrospective accompanies the recent donation of films and videos by the artist to the museum.
In Railroad Turnbridge (1976), the swing bridge on the Willamette River in Oregon functions as a support for a panoramic shot with Richard Serra's camera. By framing the landscape through this steel structure, the film produces, as in Frame, a perceptual dissonance between the real space and that of the representation. Made three years later with Clara Weyergraf, Steelmill/Stahlwerk (1979) also testifies to an interest in industrial development (Serra having worked in steel mills). The film documents the production of his monumental sculpture (for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin) Berlin Block (for Charlie Chaplin) in Hattingen, including interviews with workers in the Henrichshütte steel mills.
Session introduced by Philippe-Alain Michaud, head curator of the Centre Pompidou film collection, preceded by the projection of Interior NY Subway – 14th Street to 42nd Street (American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., 16 mm [originally 35 mm], black and white, silent, 5 min 37 s).
Richard Serra, Railroad Turnbridge, 16 mm, black and white, silent, 19 min
Richard Serra [with Clara Weyergraf], Steelmill/Stahlwerk, 16 mm, black and white, son (original German version with English subtitles), 29 min
Acknowledgements: The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Gagosian (New York, Paris), Light Cone (Paris)
When
3pm - 5pm
Where
Richard Serra, Railroad Turnbridge
Adagp, Paris © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM/Dist. RMN-GP