S. Carlino, originally uploaded by el buitre
IT WAS in Borromini’s church, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, in Rome that Richard Serra first saw the light a decade ago. “I was standing in a side aisle, looking at the oval space on the floor and the same oval on the ceiling, called a Borromini ellipse. I thought they were at right angles to each other. When I moved to the central aisle, I realised I was wrong. But I kept on wondering: how can I create—how can I actually make—my misrepresentation?”