Equivalent VIII

Equivalent VIII

Equivalent VIII, usually referred to as "The Bricks", is the last and most famous of a series of minimalist sculpture by Carl Andre. Constructed in 1966, it was bought by The Tate Gallery in 1972. The exhibit comprises one-hundred-and-twenty fire bricks, arranged in two layers, in a six-by-ten rectangle. All eight structures in the series have the same height, mass and volume, but different shapes. Thus they are all "equivalent".

When first exhibited at the Tate Gallery at Millbank in 1976, the piece drew much criticism in the press because of the perception that taxpayers' money had been spent on paying an inflated price for a collection of bricks

The exhibit is now housed in the Tate Modern gallery on Bankside.

External links

* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=508 The Bricks] at the Tate Modern


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