Carl André

This retrospective will bring
together, for the first time, the entirety of the artist’s work: around forty
monumental sculptures rarely presented outside the United States, as well as
approximately thirty small sculptures including the Dada Forgeries pieces,
several photography series, and numerous poems. The exhibition will allow
visitors to experience these works that have often been reproduced, but never
brought together, and better understand them as a whole. Carl André, a founder
of minimalism along with Donald Judd and Robert Morris, changed the status of
the work of art: it was no longer a symbolic or figurative element, but a real
object that is part of the world in the same way that a tree or a wall
are.  He used raw materials like wood or
metal whose sizes were limited only by the ability to transport them. The
sculptures, which most of the time were designed around the exhibition space,
resonate with the location and alter the traditional perception of the
spectator. Designed by the Dia Art Foundation in close collaboration with the
artist, this exhibition was presented in New York (2014) and Madrid (until 12
October 2015) and will also be presented in Berlin, and then in Los Angeles.

CURATORS:
Yasmil Raymond, Guest curator: Sébastien Gokalp

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