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
political matter conscious
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
block space inward
I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
block way sculpture
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
giving sculpture
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.
drinking long hanging-out
I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.
feminist favors
I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.
art children thinking
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.
children artist littles
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
piano study
I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
vermeer ifs
If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
found made streets
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
thinking doubt found
I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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.
artist firsts used
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.