CARL ANDRE

Andre was one of the most influential artists of his generation who was known for expanding the limits of sculpture. While sharing a studio with Frank Stella in New York at the beginning of his practice, Andre began one of his earliest series of works which were composed as typewritten poems. These poems used words and letters as sculptural materials which were often collaged together from newspapers and other forms of literature. These works anticipated the artist’s practice as a sculptor and foreshadowed his first-floor sculptures: both the works on paper and his subsequent sculptures demonstrate the importance of repetition in the artist’s practice and his fondness for reappropriating existing materials by cutting and rearranging them.

Andre’s works are part of museum collections all over the world: Tate Modern, London; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the MoMA, New York.

Courtesy MASSIMODECARLO