Thursday, June 14, 2007

The Treachery of Images

Ceci n'est pas un Serra
Photo taken in Tribeca

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok... I need help because I cannot translate! All I got was "this is not un serra"... so what does serra mean? -AM

scpllck said...

Richard Serra is a sculptor who lives in Tribeca. He works mostly in large metal forms which oxidize in their environments. This rusted dumpster was in Tribeca. The phrase "ceci n'est pas un serra" is a riff on Magritte's painting "The Treachery of Images." "Ceci n'est pas un pipe," is written on a painting of a pipe. A good resource for Serra's work can be found here http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag99/jan99/serra/sm-serra.shtml