Details
Carl Andre (b. 1935)
Zinc-Steel Dipole (N/S)
two elemets-zinc and steel
each: 1/4 x 19 5/8 x 39 3/8 in. (.5 x 50 x 100 cm.)
overall: 1/4 x 39 1/4 x 38 3/8 in. (.5 x 100 x 100 cm.)
Executed in 1975.
Provenance
Mario Fiorentino, Rome
Faggionato Fine Arts, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Carl Andre, exh. cat., The Hague & Eindhoven, 1987, p. 92, no. 1975.39.
Exhibited
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum and Haags Gemeentemuseum, Carl Andre, November 1986-March 1987, no. 39 (The Hague) (illustrated).
Further Details
“Sculpture, you might say, is matter mattering. We compliment a painter when we call her a colorist. My vocation is to be a matterist”
(C. Andre, as quoted by T. Marlow, “Interview with Carl Andre,” Tate Magazine 9 (Summer 1996), pp. 36-41).