Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses, Dia 1997, landscape cover: aerial view of a steel ellipse with workers inside a fabrication hall.
Massive rolled steel plates and rollers on the fabrication floor, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
A curved steel plate being moved by heavy machinery inside an industrial hall, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Dark steel torqued ellipse in a white gallery with a visitor for scale, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
View along the leaning steel walls of a torqued ellipse passage, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses, Dia 1997, landscape cover: aerial view of a steel ellipse with workers inside a fabrication hall.
Massive rolled steel plates and rollers on the fabrication floor, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
A curved steel plate being moved by heavy machinery inside an industrial hall, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Dark steel torqued ellipse in a white gallery with a visitor for scale, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
View along the leaning steel walls of a torqued ellipse passage, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses, Dia 1997, landscape cover: aerial view of a steel ellipse with workers inside a fabrication hall.
Massive rolled steel plates and rollers on the fabrication floor, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
A curved steel plate being moved by heavy machinery inside an industrial hall, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Dark steel torqued ellipse in a white gallery with a visitor for scale, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
View along the leaning steel walls of a torqued ellipse passage, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses, Dia 1997, landscape cover: aerial view of a steel ellipse with workers inside a fabrication hall.
Massive rolled steel plates and rollers on the fabrication floor, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
A curved steel plate being moved by heavy machinery inside an industrial hall, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Dark steel torqued ellipse in a white gallery with a visitor for scale, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
View along the leaning steel walls of a torqued ellipse passage, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses, Dia 1997, landscape cover: aerial view of a steel ellipse with workers inside a fabrication hall.
Massive rolled steel plates and rollers on the fabrication floor, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
A curved steel plate being moved by heavy machinery inside an industrial hall, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Curved weatherproof steel plate carried on a flatbed through a city street, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
Dark steel torqued ellipse in a white gallery with a visitor for scale, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.
View along the leaning steel walls of a torqued ellipse passage, Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses.

RICHARD SERRA — TORQUED ELLIPSES (1997), DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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Published by: Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1997
Year: 1997
Dimensions: 27.94 x 24.13 cm
Language: English
Format: Softcover, 88 pages
ISBN: 0-944521-35-5 / 978-0-944521-35-9
Condition: Very Good — well preserved, with the interior remaining in pristine condition. The softcover is exceptionally well maintained, with only very light and barely visible signs of use around the corners.

Catalogue published on the occasion of Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses, presented at Dia Center for the Arts, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, from 25 September 1997 to 14 June 1998. Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, designed by Laura Fields, and printed by Enterprise Press, New York, the publication includes an interview with Richard Serra and extensive photographic documentation of the works and their fabrication.

The exhibition brought together Torqued Ellipse I (1996), Torqued Ellipse II (1996), and Double Torqued Ellipse (1997): monumental walk-in structures fabricated from two-inch weatherproof steel, each rising more than thirteen feet high. With these works, Serra opened a new chapter in his sculptural practice, bending steel simultaneously along two axes so that the elliptical plates appear to lean inward and outward as the viewer moves through them. The sculptures are conceived not as objects to be observed from a fixed position, but as architectural environments activated through the movement of the body.

The photographic sequence follows the works through their entire production and installation process. It begins with Dirk Reinartz's photographs of the ellipses at Beth Ship in Maryland, continues with Ken Goebel's documentation of their installation at Dia, and concludes with Ivory Serra's views of the completed interiors. The publication also reproduces the working models and CATIA computer drawings used to translate Serra's forms into buildable structures.

Earlier works including To Lift (1967), One-Ton Prop (House of Cards) (1969), Shift (1970–72), Circuit (1972), Delineator (1974–76), Clara-Clara (1983), and Intersection (1993) provide a broader context for the development of Serra's sculptural language, tracing his sustained investigation of weight, balance, gravity, material, and bodily experience.

A foundational document of Serra's late work and of Dia's influential Chelsea program during the 1990s, the catalogue records a decisive moment in the artist's expansion of sculpture from autonomous object into immersive architectural experience.

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