Between Sculpture and Poetry

雕塑與詩歌之間 – 卡爾安德烈

Carl Andre (1935－2024) is one of the best-known sculptors of the Minimal Art movement, which emerged chiefly in the United States in the late 1960s. Between Sculpture and Poetry is Andre’s first solo exhibition in a Japanese museum. It makes full of use of its spacious venue to showcase Andre’s well-known sculptures made of blocks of wood,  plates of metal, and slabs of stone processed to the same size and shape and placed in regular arrangements directly on the floor. In light of the way they act on the space in which they are installed, the artist describes these works using the term “sculpture as place.”

卡爾·安德烈（1935－2024）是1960年代末在美國主要興起極簡藝術活動中最著名的雕塑家之一。《在雕塑與詩歌之間》是安德烈在日本博物館展出的首次個展，充分利用其寬敞的場地展示了安德烈著名的雕塑作品，這些作品由經過加工成相同尺寸和形狀的木塊、金屬板和石板構成，並井然有序排列將作品置於地面上。有鑒於這些作品對於所處空間的影響，藝術家用“作為場域的雕塑”來描述這些作品。

To view these sculptures in person reveals details that bely the regimented, inorganic impression they make: the way the metal gleams or rusts, the grain of the wood, the heft of the stone—the composed self-possession of matter itself. It also becomes apparent that not all of the units share the exact same size or shape.

親自觀賞這些雕塑時，可以發現與它們所給予的規整、無機印象不符的細節：金屬的光澤或銹蝕，木材的紋理，石頭的質感——物質本身的沉著自持。還會發現並不是所有單元的尺寸和形狀完全相同。

Between Sculpture and Poetry also includes a selection of Andre’s poetry, which is evaluated highly by those familiar with it. Andre creates his poems by typing verbal fragments on a typewriter, and the results can be appreciated both as literature and as visual arrangements. Along with the spatial and structural awareness also evident in Andre’s sculpture, they reflect his thinking in a wide range of fields, including literature, art, history, and politics.

《在雕塑與詩歌之間》還包括了安德烈的一些詩歌作品，這些作品受到了熟悉它們的人的高度評價。安德烈通過打字機輸入文字片段創作詩歌，這些作品既可以作為文學欣賞，也可以作為視覺排列欣賞。這些詩歌與安德烈的雕塑中同樣顯而易見的空間和結構意識一起，反映了他在文學、藝術、歷史和政治等多個領域的思考。