American artist Richard Serra, steel sculptor, has died

He died at his home in New York state following pneumonia, according to the American daily. Exhibited in major American museums in the desert of Qatar, Richard Serra has delivered massive, rounded works, yet minimalist in appearance, pushing reflection on space and the environment.

Born in San Francisco to a mother of Russian Jewish origin and a Spanish father, he trained in Paris then settled in the 1960s in New York in full artistic ferment. At the end of this decade, he published a manifesto then revealed a founding work, “One ton prop (House of cards)“, four lead plates measuring 122×122 cm, held in balance by their own weight, like a house of cards.