Carl Andre

Artist

Carl Andre
United States 1935

Dealer

André Simoens Gallery

American Minimalist Sculptor, recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures ranging from large public artworks to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space. He was one of the founders of the art movement known as Minimal, Systemic, or ABC Art. Carl Andre invariably works within a strict self-imposed modular system, using commercially available materials or objects, almost always in identical units or bar forms, such as timber, styrofoam, cement
blocks, bales of hay, etc., with only one type of material per work. Emplacement, environment, and relativeness are important in all of this artist's works.