Carl Andre
dal 3/2/2004 al 20/3/2004
Segnalato da
3/2/2004
Carl Andre
Sadie Coles HQ (old location), London
The show will feature sonnets and new copper and aluminium sculptures. By bringing together Andre's work both as a sculptor and a poet the connections he forges across the two media are brought into evidence. Through his sculptures Andre has sought to renegotiate conventions of display, forcing a dialogue between the object and it's surroundings.
What properties in materials do you identify with? Why do you continue to use
the same materials? What is it that changes in your work from piece to piece?
My formulation for sculpture (form-structure-place) left out my main concern:
matter.
Sadie Coles HQ is delighted to present the gallery's second show with the
American artist Carl Andre. The show will feature sonnets and new copper and
aluminium sculptures. By bringing together Andre's work both as a sculptor and a
poet the connections he forges across the two media are brought into evidence.
Through his sculptures Andre has sought to renegotiate conventions of display,
forcing a dialogue between the object and it's surroundings. The sculptural form
is no longer an end in itself, but rather the residue of an intervention into
space. Brancusi's Endless Column (1938) has often been cited as a point of
reference - a reference sustained by Andre's own comment: 'My idea of a piece of
sculpture is a road. That is, a road doesn't reveal itself at any particular
point or from any particular point'. The materials themselves used in their
elemental, unadulterated form are somehow redefined through their sculptural
possibilities. And within his poetry Andre carries ou!
t a similar reassessment. Just as the hierarchy between form and space is
overthrown in his sculpture and the essential tools are reconsidered, the
supremacy of language or linguistic meaning is undermined and the visual form of
the poem assumes an equal standing.
Carl Andre lives and works in New York. His work has been included in group
shows all over the world and he has had many solo shows, including
retrospectives at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1970), Laguna Gloria
Art Museum, Austin, Texas (1978), Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1987),
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1996) and Musée Cantini, Marseilles (1997).
private view: Wed 04 Feb 6-8pm
For further information please contact Sara Harrison on +44 20 7434 2227.
Sadie Coles HQ
35 Heddon Street W1B 4BP
London