07 February - 20 March 2004
BLACK WHITE CARBON TIN
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Through his sculptures Carl Andre has sought to renegotiate conventions of display. The sculptural form is no longer an end in itself, but the residue of an intervention into space. Brancusi's Endless Column has often been cited as a point of reference - a reference sustained by Andre's own comment: 'My idea of a piece of sculpture is a road. That is, a road doesn't reveal itself at any particular point or from any particular point.' The graphite bricks in the new sculptures are used in their elemental, unadulterated form, yet are redefined through their sculptural possibilities. Andre's poetry carries out a similar reassessment. Just as the hierarchy between form and space is overthrown in his sculpture, the supremacy of linguistic meaning is undermined: the visual form of the poem assumes an equal standing.