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Carl Andre: Mass & Matter
Opens: 01/02/2013 Closes: 06/05/2013
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Sculptures you can walk on helped made this American minimalist great, and his tile pieces are now seen as iconic works of 20th-century art. With a fondness for bog-standard industrial materials, he once said he wanted to do for matter what Turner did for colour, a good link to the venue for his first public UK show in a decade, displaying works made between 1967 and 1983. Shows alongside Rosa Barba: Subject to Constant Change.
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The Arts Desk“It’s a dense display and feels anything but arid and lifeless... ” “As Turner severed colour from depiction,” we read, “so I attempt to sever matter from depiction”. Surveying these works, seeing how this exhibition unfolds like a delightful surprise, this doesn’t feel such a grandiose statement at all...
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The Telegraph“Solid, rugged, honest — and nostalgic...” People often assume that Minimal art is cerebral and visually uninteresting — but a prominent characteristic of Andre’s work is its sensuousness. It invites you to scrutinise, say, the knots, cracks and nubbly surfaces of solid timber...
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Financial Times“Andre redefined the possibilities of his medium...” According to your viewpoint, such works either look rigorous and repressed – minimalism traces its lineage to American puritanism – or starkly poetic. Not in doubt is the historical influence: by reducing sculpture to basic elements...
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