Richard Serra - Drawings 2015-2017

June 24–September 24

Organized in collaboration with the artist, Drawings 2015–2017was the first museum presentation of recent drawings by Richard Serra. The exhibition included 80 drawings, among them works from the Ramble (2015), Composites (2016), and Rifts (2011–17) series, as well as sketchbooks which have never been shown before. In addition, Serra created two new series entitled Rotterdam Horizontals and Rotterdam Verticals especially for this exhibition.

Drawings 2015-2017 continued the long-standing connection between the artist and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Serra's first solo exhibition at the museum was held in 1980, and marked the creation and permanent installation of the large-scale steel sculpture Waxing Arcs in the entrance area.

Published on the occasion of this exhibition, Richard Serra: Drawings 2015–2017includes texts by Neil Cox and Francesco Stocchi as well as a chronology of the drawings and a historical text by Albert Camus that was selected by Serra.