Lisa Zaher
The form of a work of art, at once materially present and self evident, we are told, makes manifest an internal logic and significance.
Author: Lisa Zaher
Andre’s Drill: Carl Andre at Dia:Beacon
May 5, 2014–March 2, 2015.
Art © Carl Andre/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York.
The current retrospective of the work of the American sculptor and poet Carl Andre, on view at Dia:Beacon, engenders nothing short of a provocative re-inscription of the parameters for artistic production within the Minimalist cannon. A consideration of Andre’s poems alongside both well known and lesser known sculptural forms, in addition to previously unknown projects in diverse media, foreground the relation between Andre’s material processes and a systems aesthetic. Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958-2010 enables us to begin to register the grounds, or limiting conditions, through which an improvisatory and material systems aesthetic may emerge.