The American Sculptor Richard Serra ((Richard Serra)an important form of contemporary art, creator of monumental works, crafted in several cases with huge sheets of rusted copper, passed away yesterday Tuesday at the age of 85, the New York Times reported, citing his lawyer.

The artist died at his home in New York state of complications from pneumonia, the newspaper explained.

With exhibitions the facilities from major American museums to the desert of Qatar, Richard Serra delivered dozens of memorable works—abstract, vast, sometimes labyrinthine, tending to minimalismgiving food for thought in terms of space and environment.

Born in San Francisco, the son of a Russian-Jewish mother and a Spanish father, he studied in Paris, then settled in New York in the 1960s, in the midst of an artistic upheaval. At the end of that decade, he published a manifesto, then unveiled the work “One ton prop (House of cards)”, four 122×122 cm lead plates, balanced by their own weight, like a tower of cards.

He then moved on to large slabs of brownish-orange copper that looked like rust, creating works that were exhibited in New York, Washington, Bilbao and Paris.

In 2014, he erected steel towers in the desert sands of Qatar, so far away that you need a 4×4 and a good map to see them, some 70 kilometers from the capital Doha.

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“When one sees my sculptures, one does not hold an object. It holds back an experience, a passage,” he declared in 2004.