Richard Serra at the London Gagosian Gallery

The unassuming gallery on Britannia Street near King's Cross tube station showcases works by American sculptor Richard Serra.
    The gallery is one of two exhibition spaces in London owned by art dealer Larry Gagosian. The second exhibition space is located on Davies Street. Both galleries were designed by the architectural firm Caruso St. Jones Architects.
    Richard Serra was born in San Francisco and originally studied English literature. His father was a shipbuilder. He also developed a relationship with metal during his work stints in ironworks. In 1964, he graduated with a degree in fine arts from Yale University in New Haven.
    Serra is exhibiting in London for the second time. His gigantic sculpture titled Fulcrum has been a permanent part of the pedestrian concourse at Liverpool Station since 1987. The exhibited works were produced in Germany. In the gallery, they are arranged separately into four areas. Next to the display of four suspended geometric shapes representing the structure of corroded metal is a nine-meter-long wall paying tribute to the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. The central space of the gallery is filled with two sculptures creating an enclosed cylindrical space with concave and convex cross-sections.
    The most sophisticated exhibited work is the so-called Open Ended. The pure form of a ship's hull conceals within itself the poetry of Serra's work. Visitors are drawn in by a mental spiral into a labyrinth of narrow corridors created by six steel plates that make up the entire piece.

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