2024-01-25 19:16:40
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The minimalist sculptor, who reversed the quest for verticality and whose works offered a sensory experience to spectators, died Wednesday January 24 in New York at the age of 88. He was accused of murdering his wife, the artist Ana Mendieta, and acquitted in 1988.
By flattening the sculpture, to make it a carpet rather than a volume, he, in the mid-1960s, appalled and enchanted the public, who had never seen this, nor ever dared to walk on a work. With Carl Andre, what thus became permitted (even obligatory) was also to produce a sculpture without incising, without cutting, without molding the material, without the artist leaving his hand on it, but simply by aligning or stacking prefabricated modules with simple geometric shapes. A stunning pioneer of minimalism, the American remained faithful to these early-invented precepts throughout his life and had a career without any real downturns. Even following the death, in troubled circumstances to say the least, of his wife, the artist Ana Mendieta. Carl Andre died in New York on Wednesday January 24.
Born in 1935, in Quincy, Massachusetts, it was in New York, where he settled at the end of the 1950s, that he tried his hand at sculpture, but also at poetry by working on the arrangement of blocks in both. On paper, these are blocks of text, typed on a typewriter which guarantees regular space between letters and words, arranged along three axes: the grid, the list and the mathematical sequence. In space, these are blocks of wood, prefabricated and strictly identical units, cut with a mechanical saw, stacked
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