CARL ANDRE

1935 - 2024

ANDRE--Carl. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf/Berlin, are deeply saddened to announce the death of Carl Andre, January 24, 2024. Carl Andre was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1935. With his work he radically transformed the concept of sculpture. His first solo exhibition was held at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, in 1965, to immediate acclaim. In 1967 he had his first European solo show at Konrad Fischer Galerie in Dusseldorf. A year later, he was included in Paula Cooper Gallery's inaugural exhibition. His works were part of the legendary Harald Szeemann exhibition When Attitudes become form (1969), and he participated in many of the landmark, era-defining exhibitions of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as three editions of the international exhibition documenta (1968, 1977 and 1982). In 1970 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, presented the first retrospective of his work. Carl Andre's six-decade career includes several large-scale museum surveys between 1978 and 2014, including a nine-venue retrospective in North America (1978-80), and shows in The Hague and Eindhoven (1987), Krefeld and Wolfsburg (1996), Kleve and Bolzano (2011). His 2014 retrospective, organized by the Dia Art Foundation, New York (2014), traveled to museums in Madrid, Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles through 2017. A one-person exhibition, Carl Andre: Between Sculpture and Poetry, recently closed at the Daegu Art Museum, South Korea, and will reopen at The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Japan in March 2024. Carl Andre is survived by his wife, the artist Melissa L. Kretschmer, a sister, Carol Robie, five nieces, and five nephews. He will be dearly missed.