Carl Andre

(USA) *1935 in Quincy, Massachusetts, †2024 in New York City

The American object artist Carl Andre is one of the leading representatives of Minimal Art. His works were shown in the ground-breaking “When Attitude Becomes Form” exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bern, as well as in the documenta 4 and 7 exhibitions. Characteristic for his sculptures of the early sixties are prefabricated components, combined into geometric shapes, functioning as parts of a whole. After meeting Frank Stella in 1958, Andre began to work in his studio. Here, he created pyramid-like objects out of identical wood beams. From 1960 to 1964, Andre worked as a shunter for the Pennsylvania Railroad which proved decisive for his later work. This is evident, for example, in “Lever” (1966), a line of bricks strung together, or in his famous ground works in metal after 1967.