Carl Andre.WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY In Britain, Carl Andre's work has been both reviled and revered. On the one hand, the Tate Gallery's 1976 acquisition of Andre's Equivalent VIII Equivalent VIII, usually referred to as "The Bricks", is the last and most famous of a series of minimalist sculpture by Carl Andre. Constructed in 1966, it was bought by The Tate Gallery in 1972. (The Bricks) was greeted with tabloid tab·loid n. A newspaper of small format giving the news in condensed form, usually with illustrated, often sensational material. adj. 1. In summary form; condensed. 2. Lurid or sensational. outrage OUTRAGE. A grave injury; a serious wrong. This is a generic word which is applied to everything, which is injurious, in great degree, to the honor or rights of another. ; on the other, the Whitechapel honored the artist with a full-scale survey but two short years later. Substantial displays followed at the Saatchi Gallery The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to show his sizeable (and changing) collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and Chelsea in 1985 and at Oxford's Museum of Modern Art in 1996. Now Whitechapel programming head Judith Nesbitt will close the circle with the most ambitious British effort to date: thirty works from 1965 to the present, early documentary photos by Hollis Frampton, and the artist's poetry. Andre's art is well suited to this extended, extensive treatment: Only then does its rich diversity really become apparent. July 7-Aug. 27. |
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