Torqued Ellipse

Spent several wonderful hours wandering through the Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries this weekend. The museum is located on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, NY in a former Nabsico, box-printing plant that was built in 1929. With 240,000 square feet of old brick walls and polished wooden floors and beautiful natural light from skylights, the gallery space is perfect for large scale installations of contemporary art, e.g. the crushed automobile scultures of John Chamberlain, Imi Knoebel's brightly colored polygons, the flourescent lights of Dan Flavin, Andy Warhol's Shadows series, and the precise pencil geometries of Sol LeWitt, among many, many others.

I was particularly taken with Richard Serra's massive Torqued Ellipse sculptures. Image above is looking up at the Dia:Beacon ceiling from inside Torqued Ellipse II (1996). My cellphone camera went off by itself.

Off early tomorrow morning to Guerrero, Mexico for a week or so. Posts, if any, will be sporadic. Happy Labor Day to everyone.