American sculptor Richard Serra, popular for his large-format minimalist sculptures and installations, died yesterday in New York at the age of 85.
He was one of the most sought-after artists alive in the 80s and 90s of the last century and the main cities were fighting to have one of his gigantic sculptures and minimalist installations, built specifically for the environment. And Barcelona was no less.
Its installation, in 1984, with Narcís Serra as mayor, was the preview of all the interventions that Pasqual Maragall would carry out years later in pre-Olympic Barcelona.
Barcelona’s Richard Serra settled in a redeveloped square in La Verneda when the city was beginning to look beautiful. There is The Wall, known since its inauguration as the wall – or the mur, in Catalan -, two semicircles of white wall two meters high that embrace the square, harmoniously integrating into the environment.
