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Carl Andre  born 1935

Carl Andre Equivalent VIII 1966
© Carl Andre/VAGA, New York and DACS, London 2002
Equivalent VIII  1966

Firebricks
object: 127 x 686 x 2292 mm
sculpture

Purchased 1972

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'The sensation of these pieces was that they come above your ankles, as if you were wading in bricks', Andre has commented. 'It was like stepping from water of one depth to water of another depth.' This was the last in his series of Equivalent sculptures, each consisting of a rectangular configuration of 120 firebricks. Although the shape of each arrangement is different, they all have the same height, mass and volume, and are therefore 'equivalent' to each other.
 (From the display caption August 2004)