Carl Andre & Enrico Castellani
16 Nov 2017–13 Jan 2018 at the Gallery Greta Meert in Brussels, Belgium
This exhibition shows one monumental work by Carl Andre: Thebes. Made out of Western red cedar wood in 2003, the work measures 120 x 90 x 1080 cm and exists out of 48 timbers, one row of 12 vertical timbers mounting one traverse horizontal tee timber each, flanked at base by two parallel rows of 12 horizontal timbers all based on the floor. The artist uses the pieces of wood in the form of modules with standardised dimensions. As with all his sculptures the elements are connected to the ground in three ways: stacked, spread flat either on a grid or contiguously. By ways of stacking the work demands a physical involvement of the viewer, walking past the work gives you a sense of its mass, length, volume and even the smell of the cedar wood.Carl Andre was one of the founders of the art movement known as Minimal Art.
