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The Lonely Palette

Ep. 8 - Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipses" (1996)

The Lonely Palette

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This big bully is about to give you a lesson in contrasts you won't soon forget. Featuring Dar Williams! See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/9/19/episode-8-richard-serras-torqued-ellipses-1998 Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Turning", "Downhill Racer", "Cloud Line" Lee Rosevere, "Reflections" Dar Williams and the WASTM Good Times House Choir, "The Water is Wide"

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0:12.6

How would describe this? I would describe it as contained but vast. It's kind of like a giant took a big piece of iron and turned it into a circle, but with a little opening

0:22.0

that people could walk through, us little people.

0:25.0

And despite the fact that it's such an industrial space and such an industrial material,

0:30.6

the color in here with the light is so warm and I find it strangely comforting.

0:37.0

A canyon of steel.

0:40.0

So it's almost like being in like a fruit roll-up of the desert.

0:45.0

It looks mean and it looks hard and it looks strong.

0:55.0

I feel like this can bully you a little bit because it's so intimidating.

1:00.0

But it's a kind of a klutzy giant so both the circles are very imperfect and slightly elliptical.

1:09.0

A wheel inside a wheel. wheel. What does this feel like walking through?

1:18.0

Once you're folding.

1:19.0

Yeah.

1:20.0

It's pressing in on us from the outside.

1:23.0

I feel like I'm not going to sit.

1:25.0

Yeah.

1:26.0

It's a very confining space because you're walking around two circles,

1:31.0

ones to the left of you and one's to the right.

1:33.4

So you're walking inside a circle with a circle next to you.

1:35.8

I feel like you're looking fine area, but you know that you want,

1:39.2

you don't know if there's no ceiling to this. Do you feel tilt? Yes. Right here is like you're being

1:50.0

pressed against the wall even though it's not touching you.

1:53.0

And it's so strong and confident though that if it should crush you, it meant to.

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