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Andre designs his sculptures to transform the space around them. Since the gallery space is a vital part of the creation, he personally installs all his shows.
Andre must defend his work against repeated claims that such nonrepresentational and non-sculpted work cannot be called art. Actually, his art is important precisely because it is so radically different from traditional sculpture. Andre seeks to express himself in the simplest, most fundamental manner.
FRANK STELLA INFLUENCED Andre's desire to reduce art to its purest. Andre and Stella both attended Andover, but first met in New York in the '50s. Andre was impressed by Stella's line paintings, in which the painter restricted himself to an extremely limited visual vocabulary.
Andre spent the following years experimenting with different materials and environments in his work. At a gallery in New York he dropped 800 plastic blocks from a canvas bag and, letting gravity arrange them, called it "Spill." For "Joint" he lined up a row of hay bales across a field...
Andre's explorations into new realms of sculpture contributed to the evolution of two other schools of art. Environmental artists created "earthworks" inseparable from individual settings. Christo's running fence in California is one of the most famous of these projects.