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Carl Andre

Born – Quincy USA 1935

Carl André is the sculptor of the notorious floorpiece, Equivalent VIII, popularly known as The Bricks, in the Tate collection in London, England. Epitomizing the reductive Minimalist art movement, the work gave prominence to André among the American Minimalists working during the 1960s and 1970s. André attended the Phillips Academy in Andover (1951-1953). On his subsequent visit to Europe, his interest in Neolithic sites compounded his admiration for the sculpture of Constantin Brancusi. In the late 1950s, André was introduced to artist Frank Stella who became a close friend, André using his studio to make his work. In keeping with the minimal aesthetic, André explored the notion of negative space by cutting into his sculpture. Last Ladder, 1959, was a response to Brancusi’s Endless Column. He began exhibiting in 1964, and in 1965 he formulated the integration of modular units into a grid structure when, according to writer David Bourdon, “He realized his sculpture had to be as level as water”. 144 Magnesium 119, 1969, one of six versions made in different metals, conforms to this criterion. It becomes part of the environment over which we can walk. It negates any anthropomorphic associations, common in the consideration of “conventional” sculpture.

Masterpieces:

• Last Ladder
• Equivalent VIII

Text: The A-Z of Art, Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson.

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