Carl Andre
Carl Andre
Carl Andreis an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworksto more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space. In 1988, Andre was tried and acquitted in the death of his wife, artist Ana Mendieta...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth16 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
new-york expensive
New York is dead. It's too expensive.
new-york
When I came to New York, it was cheap!
giving sculpture
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.
artist wonderful lost
Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
block kids littles
What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
believe thinking forever
Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.
art everyday common
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
moving views point-of-view
We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
art mean needs
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
photography art thinking
I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
thinking gold bars
You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.
thinking doubt found
I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
art conscious
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.