Richard Serra, a giant of US art whose monumental steel sculptures have appeared around the world over the past 50 years, has died at the age of 85.

Nicknamed the “poet of iron”, Serra is credited with reinventing sculpture by placing simple but huge arrangements of upright slabs and shapes in the ground.

People can walk around and between his looming and leaning metal sheets, often on a street or in the landscape.

His rusting works are in cities including London, Berlin and New York.

For visitors, walking inside his sculptures could evoke a range of sensations, from inner peace to physical oppression.

“They sometimes induce vertigo. But they’re also remarkably liberating,” Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee wrote.

“You can come out of them with feelings of secret and victorious expansion, as if you were Theseus after slaying the Minotaur.”

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