Eleven small and medium-sized sculptures were selected for the show, through which a tour of the artist’s work is carried out: they were exhibited from historical sculptures (Zinc Quadrank, 1976) to the latest series that are exhibited for the first time; it is the Alnico pole group, works created with units of alnico – an acronym for aluminum (Al), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) – that remain together thanks to the ferromagnetic characteristics of the material. In addition, sculptures of various materials were shown, from the aforementioned alnico, to zinc, through talc, bakelite, steel or limestone (Belgian blue limestone).
This same year Andre received the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation Prize. The exhibition coincides with the artist’s retrospective at the Museion of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy.
Carl Andre was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 16th September 1935. He studied at the Phillips Academy, moving afterwards to New York. In the city, he met fundamental artists as Frank Stella.
His sculptural work follows the lines of minimalism, and evidence a high delicate formal subtlety. Thus, through a meditated combination of modular elements, Carl Andre explores the limits of sculpture and space, transforming heavy materials – stone, steel, plumb, wood or marble – into light profiles.
