Word: serra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extent that sculpture can get away from its primordial conditions of weight, thickness, opacity and immobility, it did so in the '60s, and often with an annoyingly academic self-righteousness. Nevertheless, a few of the best sculptors of the time, like Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra, obdurately resisted this trend, and we now seem to have got back to the point where we can look at a massive heavy shape without thinking it backward and funky, or parroting the once obligatory cliches about Stonehenge. An exhibition very much to the point opened this month at the Sculpture...
...scoring sophomore Barry Martinelli leads the RPI attack, centering the first line for freshman wingers Dino Serra and Pat Hahn. Martinelli has earned 50 points on 24 goals and 26 assists, while Serra and Hahn have notched 35 and 32 points respectively...
Only three of the Democratic candidates, all from East Boston, have any shot at winning: State Representative George DiLorenzo, State Representative Emanuel "Gus" Serra, and Michael LoPresti Jr. '70. Other candidates include Filippa Pizzi of East Boston, Pasquale Buonopane of the North End, William P. Intraversato-Foley of the South End, and Michael Amato, the only candidate from Cambridge...
...Serra, a quiet, hardworking State Representative, has run a driving door-to-door campaign, but his lack of exposure may cost him votes...
Hesse's work oscillated between fundamentalism and funk: on one hand, a reductive, seemingly casual approach to sculpture, which also lay behind the scatterings and floor pieces of artists like Richard Serra and Carl Andre (shavings, or planks, or tiles, or indeed anything except a figure on a base); on the other, the use of droopy, cracked, hanging, bandaged, sprawled, repetitive and otherwise un-ideal forms as references to the human body, its vulnerability to age and gravity, its indelicate openness. Hesse's role in providing American art with an exit from the minimalist impasse was crucial...