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25/1/2008

Three exhibitions

Yvon Lambert, Paris

Cral Andre "Iron"

"I have on talent", says sculptor Carl Andre. "That is choosing great materials and getting out of the way"

For his sixth exhibition at Yvon Lambert, Carl Andre has chosen to work with IRON, a
material he has not worked with to date. The works will be composed of many hundreds of
small, thin plates arranged on the gallery floors.
Since the 1960s, Andre has created sculpture that tends to depart from the traditional
principles of verticality and monumentality. His works are usually composed of standardized, identical elements that are either juxtaposed in geometric patterns or randomly scattered over the floor. "Industrial materials are my palette," Andre says. The iron comes directly from a metal plant in France, via the industrial factory where it is cut into the specified module.

The iron is used by Andre in its elemental form, redefined through its sculptural possibilities. In 1957 Andre moved to New York, after studying at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.,and began his career as a sculptor working with wood. Up to 1959 he created abstract pieces with geometric patterns, using a chisel or saw, recalling Brancusi and the rigorous logic of Frank Stella, whose studio Andre shared at the time. In 1960, he embarked on his Elements series, making works by arranging identical timbers in different configurations. This marks the moment when Andre got "out of the way" abandoning the manipulation of materials. He progressively moved on to other materials such as granite, tin, limestone, steel, lead, copper and now, for the first time, iron.

Andre’s first one-person show was held in 1965 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, and
the following year his work was included in Kynaston McShine’s and Lucy Lippard’s seminal
exhibition “Primary Structures” at the Jewish Museum, New York, 1966. He is considered,
along with Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, as one of the leading artists of the
1960s, often associated with Minimalism. In the 1970s, the artist created large installations, such as 144 Blocks and Stones (1973) for the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, and outdoor works such as Stone Field Sculpture (1977) in downtown Hartford, Conn. Andre’s work has been the subject of several retrospectives, most notably at the Solomon R.

Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1970; the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, in
1978; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1978; the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven, in 1987; the Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld; the Kunstmuseum,
Wolfsburg, in 1996; and the Musée Cantini, Marseilles, in 1997. He lives in New York.

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Melissa Kretschmer "Plane Series".

The work of Melissa Kretschmer is based on a special attention to materials and geometry.
Rough-edged planes of wood, paper, graphite and vellum are used for their particular properties and qualitative differences in terms of colour, weight, texture and flexibility. They are arranged and bound together by applied layers of beeswax. Hence, colour is not applied incidentally or arbitrarily but belongs to the inherent and indeterminable nature of each material. Kretschmer doesn't rely upon geometry to compensate for the irregularities of the materials, but to accentuate through a rigorous format their invincible unpredictability.

Instead of precision, she considers accuracy as the only valid approach to her practice: accuracy implies indeed a constant attention to the peculiarities of each material, and through accuracy only can the rightness of the whole be achieved in a composition.
Between painting and sculpture, Kretschmer's works, though minimalist, circle around the
ancestral medium of plastic art: the relationship of light and matter, how the two reveal each other's continual states of change, how they make each piece express its very own identity

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Gary Rough " Nothing is Enough"

Image by Carl Andre, "Iron"

Vernissage saturday 26 january 2008

Yvon Lambert Paris
108, rue Vieille du Temple F-75003 Paris
Free admission

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