Richard Serra Five Plates, Two Poles

This free-standing, abstract sculpture is made of five square or rectangular bronze-colored plates braced by two long poles that lie on a pale pink marble floor. In this photograph, we see one pole at the foot of three of the plates, which lean against each other at different angles. The sheets and poles are mottled with bronze and brown, and the surface is textured, as if it would be a little rough to the touch. At least two of the plates sit in grooves notched into the pole on the floor. In our view, the sculpture sits in front of a two-story bank of windows, which continue off the top edge of the photograph. The sculpture almost entirely blocks the lower story of windows. The walls to either side of the windows meet at an acute angle along the right edge of the windows. The walls and floor are both covered with pale pink marble.