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Carl Andre
Carl Andre was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His stark minimal art sculptures range from large public artworks, to large interior works exhibited on the floor, to small intimate works.
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culture · American minimalist artist (1935–2024) · writer · poet · land artist · visual artist · illustrator · draftsperson · painter · sports journalist · sculptor · artist · also Carl Andre, Carl André, Andre
Born 16 September 1935 · Died 24 January 2024 · Q315348
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2024· 3 entries
Died 2024-01-24.
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“PROPOSAL FOR ANEXPLOSION -An appropriate contractor isretained to place and fusean explosive charge sufficientto produce a crater 12 inchesdeep and 144 inches diameter.The charge is detonated by the sculptor, Carl Andre5-7- 67”
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“I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way [by carving it].”
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2017· 1 entry
Protestors attended the opening of his exhibition at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles, distributing postcards that read, "Carl Andre is at MOCA Geffen
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1988· 2 entries
Was acquitted of all charges related to Mendieta's death
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Was acquitted of the murder of his third wife Ana Mendieta and in 1999 he married his fourth wife, artist Melissa Kretschmer
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1984).
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1980· 1 entry
By NYU Press called 12 Dialogues, in which Andre and Hollis Frampton took turns responding to one another at a typewriter using mainly poetry and free-form essay-like texts
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1979· 1 entry
Met his third wife, artist Ana Mendieta, through a mutual friendship with artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero at AIR Gallery in New York City
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1976· 1 entry
After being featured in an article in The Sunday Times and later being defaced with blue food dye
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1972· 1 entry
Britain's Tate Gallery acquired Andre's Equivalent VIII, an arrangement of 120 firebricks
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1970· 1 entry
Had a solo exhibition at the Solomon R
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1969· 2 entries
“There should be no one place or even a group of places where you should be. [quote, 1969]”
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Andre helped organize the Art Workers Coalition
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1965· 1 entry
Andre had his first public exhibition of his work in the Shape and Structure show curated by Henry Geldzahler at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery
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1935· 2 entries
In Quincy, Massachusetts, the youngest of the three children of George (a master designer of freshwater plumbing for ships) and Margaret (Johnson) Andre
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Born 1935-09-16.
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