20 Cedar Slants 20°

1990

1/2© mumok

2/2© mumok

Object description	20 cedar wood blocks
Object category	installations
Material	Object: wood
Technique	Object: installation
Dimensions	Object: height: 30 cm, width: 90 cm, depth: 600 cm, height: 30 cm, width: 90 cm, depth: 30 cm Weight: weight: 640 kg
Year of acquisition	2007
Inventory number	ÖL-Stg 415/0
Creditline	mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Leihgabe der Österreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung
Rights reference	Bildrecht, Wien
Literature	Genau und anders :Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt

Standardized, often industrially-produced, component parts are assembled by Carl Andre into simple, basic geometric forms. This use of prefabricated materials with their loose ordering of simple and identical elements within the work and their reference to the floor and gravity are essential characteristics of Andre’s opus. The material stays what it is and does not indicate anything else. The equality of the elements also dissolves the hierarchy of centre and periphery within the work’s structure. This principle corresponds to the fact that for these sculptures there is no ideal viewpoint. The idea behind this is, above all, a radical turning away from the tradition of illusionism. Minimal art does not want to depict or portray anything, even in the abstract. It only seeks to set something down, to place it. The interaction between object, space, and viewer is the centre of attention.