“Carl Andre” Installation view at Daegu Art Museum ©Daegu Art Museum
The first solo exhibition of Carl Andre (b. 1935) in Asia will be held at Daegu Art Museum from September 26 to December 31. The exhibition is part of Asia Network Cooperation Exhibitions, which will be followed in 2024 at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Japan.
Carl Andre is a representative minimalist artist. He is known for his sculptures, which are made of industrial materials such as wood, metal, and brick in simple forms and arranged repeatedly. His works are characterized by the physicality of materials and geometric shapes and establish a relationship between the work, space, and viewers.
Many of his representative works will be displayed in this solo exhibition. Among them are < 4th Steel Square > (2008), in which 16 steel plates are arranged on the floor in the form of a square, < Belgica Blue Hexacube > (1988), made of 36 limestones, and < Ferox > (1982), in which steel plates are arranged gradually along the edges of the space. Also, works such as < YUCATAN > (1972-75) are included to demonstrate the interest in language and poetry that underlies his sculptures. < YUCATAN > consists of 26 poems typed on a typewriter, and is a landscape, a map, and a poem about the region called Yucatan.
