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Summary of Carl Andre

During the 1960s and 1970s, Carl Andre produced a number of sculptures which are now counted among the most innovative of his generation. Along with figures such as Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, and Robert Morris, Andre played a central role in defining the nature of Minimalist Art. His most significant contribution was to distance sculpture from processes of carving, modeling, or constructing, and to make works that simply involved sorting and placing. Before him, few had imagined that sculpture could consist of ordinary, factory-finished raw materials, arranged into straightforward configurations and set directly on the ground. In fact, during the 1960s and 1970s many of his low-lying, segmented works came to redefine for a new generation of artists the very nature of sculpture itself.

Accomplishments

• Andre was a sculptor who neither carved into substances, nor modeled forms. His work involved the positioning of raw materials - such as bricks, blocks, ingots, or plates. He used no fixatives to hold them in place. Andre suggested that
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  CARL ANDRE

  CARL ANDRE

  1935 Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

  Education
  1941-50 Quincy public schools, USA
  1951-53 Quincy public schools, 1941-50; Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, USA

  Awards

  2014
  Roswitha Haftmann Foundation Prize

  1984
  Guggenheim Fellowship

  Selected Solo Exhibitions

  2025
  Carl Andre, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

  2024
  Carl Andre. Between Sculpture and Poetry, KAWAMURA MEMORIAL DIC MUSEUM OF ART, Japan.                                                                          Carl Andre. Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

   

  2023
  Carl Andre. Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
  
  2022
  Carl Andre. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

  2019
  Carl Andre. Square Void Works, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Carl Andre. Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
  Carl Andre. Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berli

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  Carl Andre, giant of Minimalism who was tried for and acquitted of murder, has died, aged 88

  Carl Andre, the American sculptor who helped define the Minimalist movement and whose quiet, material-driven work forever changed the lexicon of contemporary sculpture, has died. Andre died in a hospice facility in Manhattan, and his death was confirmed by Paula Cooper Gallery, with which the artist had worked since 1964. He was 88 years old.

  Andre’s work often consisted of industrially fabricated forms made from simple, raw material—such as metal, granite, wood, and brick—arranged in free-standing patterns, some of which were installed on the floor with the intent that the viewer could walk upon the work itself and engage it in an unprecious manner not typically associated with a museum or gallery experience.

  Since the mid-1980s, Andre’s legacy as an artist has been complicated by accusations that he killed his wife, the artist Ana Mendieta, who fell to her death from the window of their 34th-floor apartment in Greenwich Village in 1985. Andre denied the accusations, insisting that Men