Having impressed the world with “7,” a seven-piece, 80-foot high steel sculpture installation at the Museum of Islamic Art Park in 2011, the American artist and sculptor Richard Serra was invited back to Doha by the Qatar Museum Authority (QMA) to showcase his first exhibition in the Middle East.
Set at the Alriwaq Doha Exhibition Space and the QMA Gallery in Katara, the exhibition will run until July 6th and features Serra’s installation Passage of Time, a 66-meter long maze, crafted from curved steel plates, which winds through the exhibition space. Known for his towering, site-specific installations that revolve around the concept of weight, gravity, and space, Serra was also commissioned to install an additional artwork 60 kilometers away from Doha called East-West/West-East, a kilometer-long installation of four monumental steel towers erected in the desert.
Located next to the Museum of Islamic Art, Alriwaq Doha is a temporary exhibition space produced by QMA that covers a total area of 5,000 square meters. Famous artists who have exhibited in Alriwaq include Damien Hirst, who exhibited his first solo show, Relics, in the Middle East (2013), and Takashi Murakami (2012), who is the mastermind behind Louis Vuitton’s famous colorful monogram.
Picture: Passage of Time by Richard Serra
