Richard Serra's "Snake" -- three curving steel walls 104 feet in length and weighing 174 tons -- was commissioned for this space.
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Richard Serra opens in April at the new exhibition space, focusing on works he made before he began to work in steel.
These include pieces by important 20th-century masters: Gaston Lachaise, Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Lipchitz, Barbara Hepworth, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, David Smith, Mark di Suvero.
The notorious American sculptor Richard Serra has a house here.
The design liked by Chancellor Kohl, and therefore favoured to win, comes from a New York architect, Peter Eisenman, and Richard Serra, who is best known for his stark metal sculptures.
The real appeal, though, is the contemporary sculpture garden that stretches out across the wide lawns, with works by Mark di Suvero, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra and many more lesser-known, but no less thrilling artists.
Thirteen individual artist records were set, including for Koons, Ellsworth Kelly, John Chamberlain, Fang Lijun, Zhang Xiaogang, Anish Kapoor, Ad Reinhardt, Yan Pei Ming, Richard Serra, Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt, Walter de Maria and Matthew Barney.
Amongst the shows he has recently released in Chelsea are Yayoi Kusama (way before her Louis Vuitton partnership), Claude Monet, Richard Serra, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and currently, the Brooklyn native, Jean-Michel Basquiat!
However, seen from above and nearer to the woods, with its sunken walls half-embedded into the hillside, it reveals itself as a modernist sculpture in living green a minimalist form that could have been designed by Richard Serra or Maya Lin.
The same drive that has made him such a pugnacious entrepreneur pushes him to accumulate ever grander pieces, including monumental works by sculptors like Richard Serra, whose steel structures can stretch hundreds of feet, and room-size installations by artists like Mike Kelley.
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