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From the 1980s onwards, Richard Serra (San Francisco, California, USA, 1939) went deeper into sculpture’s relationship with space with several projects in which, by his intervention in a specific architectural space, he turned it into a sculptural space. This was the idea behind Equal-Parallel: Guernica-Bengasi , in which the symmetry and balance in the conception of an architectural space are enhanced by the presence of the work, creating, as Armin Zweite has written, a tense articulation of an architectural space, the upper part of which is a smooth barrel vault, flooded with white light.
The sculpture was conceived for the building that houses the Reina Sofia National Art Museum, specifically for a large room with vaulted ceiling in the southern part alongside the patio, where it was installed for the exhibition Referencias. Un encuentro artístico en el tiempo , which opened the Reina Sofía Museum on May 26th 1986. Since its unveiling in 2009, the sculpture has been exhibited in a different room on the same floor, which has almost identical dimensions and height to the original room and also has a barrel vault. The new presentation has been adapted by the artist to the specific dimensions of the slightly shorter new space.
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