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"The relations of the parts of a work to each other may be thought of as the rythm of the work and the relations of the parts to the whole of the work may be considered its meter."
"Every work of art is located in space somewhere. A work of mine disappeares when placed in storage exactly the way your lap disappeares when you stand up. My sculpture is completed only when it is experienced by someone other than myself. Art, like justice, must be seen to be done."
"I was aware of poetry as an art before I was aware of sculpture as an art. Before I could read, I delighted in the shapes of poems on the page. Later, in poetry and sculpture, I attempted, not to arrange elements to express a previous experience, but to arrange elements to create a new experience never encountered before."
"Objectivly, my work is part of a human tradition that extends back to the dawn-time of our existance. Stonehenge in England provided my most powerful early experience of sculpture."
"Every work of art that exists is someplace. Occupies some space. Any sculpture can be analyzed in terms of form, structure, place, and material. For me, there can never be an art of ideas because ideas are linguistic constructs. Art for me must always be a material intermediation between human sensibilities, in real space and time".
"I work in the horizontal plane because that offers a more efficient disposition of a given mass than a vertical stack does. The area above a horizontal work becomes much more part of its territory than does tha area around a vertical stack."
"The mass of materials has always interested me. The mass of an object on the earth and on the moon is the same, its weight is different. My sculpture has a great deal to do with the relations betweeen mass volume and area. A gram of gold can be beaten into a 6 square foot sheet or a wire 1.5 miles long. The properties of matter fascinates and inspires me."
References: Carl Andre unpublished annotations for Ace gallery. Written upon the occasion of CA's exhibition in 1997 at AG NY. CA is showing a new series of aluminium pieces at Ace in LA 1/12 - 4/15 2002 and this was transcribed from the anouncement.
Paul Corell DE