Carl Andre (Quincy, Massachusetts, 1935), sculptor and poet, is one of the most outstanding and complex figures in Minimal Art, an artistic movement that emerged in the early sixties in the United States. From a reductionist stance, the minimalists attempted to explore the essence of the object by employing industrial materials and processes that would […]
Minimal Myth
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2 June – 16 September 2012
This summer the museum is exhibiting a selection from its own collection of Minimal art and works by the Dutch Nul group from the 1960s and 1970s alongside related work by contemporary artists. Artists such as Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Jan Schoonhoven and Ad Dekkers will be exhibited in relation to artists including Monika Sosnowska, Nathan Hylden and Oscar Tuazon. The exhibition has been selected by Francesco Stocchi, the museum’s senior curator of modern and contemporary art.