Carl Andre was born in 1935 in Quincy, Massachusetts (USA). He passed away in 2024 in New York (USA).

Carl Andre is considered one of the undisputed pioneers of Minimalist Art movement.

Andre’s artistic practice is based on the tension between space, time and modes of representation. The artist rejects the idea of roughening and shaping, joining single elements of a work by bonding or welding; his sculptures are simple shapes, obtained by combining elementary geometric units.
The space, his brilliant use and analysis of the space, is intimately related to the notion of ‘presence’, in which time and space are intertwined. There is no longer a sculpture in a space but sculpture as a space, "sculpture as place" Andre said; this phrase has become his trademark.
In his artistic evolution the visual connotation of the form quickly gives way to the conception of places that perform a dual role: a work space for the assembly of the sculpture itself and a "new" physical place in which experience the relationship with the item.