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
drinking car long
I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.
hate house bricks
I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."
country law people
People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.
complicated problem curious
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
usage turns universal
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
people variation pieces
My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.
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.
fire sweatshops would-be
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.
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.
horse nice progress
It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.
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.
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.