Word: steeled
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...lorries stream through the steel gates carrying away tons of soft turf being stripped away in search of solid ground on which to build the Ballinaboy refinery, a handful of campaigners huddle nearby in a converted horse trailer, fortifying themselves with hot tea, iced buns and buttered fruit loaf. At the gates a few gardai stand around looking glum and bored, with a wistful eye perhaps on their colleagues in the warm, dry police van parked nearby. The arrival of a reporter and a photographer produces a flurry of activity. When a dozen or so protesters make for the gates...
...shapes and long rippling bands, each of them yielding new spatial experiences. You don't just look at or around any of them. You enter them as you would a temple and absorb them by moving through them. Though he does nothing to produce deliberate surface effects on the steel, in the course of being forged and bent at high temperature, and of being left out afterward in the rain, the plates are marked with stress patterns, splatter stains and long shallow rivulets. Then, as intended, they rust. Over time they take on an appearance that's part weathered cliffside...
Then there's Intersection II, a piece that predates the Ellipses, which consists of four curved and tilted stretches of steel, positioned beside one another to form long, curving corridors that suggest those improbably angled streets in the paintings of De Chirico. Surrealism isn't something Serra thinks about when he sets out to work, but its image bank is something he admits may have seeped into his art. "Does the space in my work have a disorienting effect," he asks, "so that you can see in it the planar shifts of De Chirico? Possibly. It's not something...
...University of California at Santa Barbara, Serra took a degree in literature. But from there he went on to Yale's famous graduate program in art. Eventually he settled in New York and started the work with lead that brought him to his triumphs in steel. The MOMA show will merely certify the stature he earned years ago. At the dawn of the 21st century, an era of cyberspace, reproduction and the Internet, no one is doing more to make work that stands for the ancient and mysterious power of the real...
...original version of this article contained the sentence ?At one point Serra and his attorney at the German steel mill he works with thought of having the form trademarked.? In fact, Serra?s attorney is not connected to the steel mill...