Steve has been a sort of friend for 20 years, and I have lost his contact but found him recently through this galerie bernard jordan.
Steve had an amazing piece in aluminium which he showed me in his studio out in the countryside of South of France, and his work has since inspired me to associate art to many other forms of expression. The aluminium was weighted, and it made a sound upon tapping it, akin to a cry from bird species unique to the Camargue, near Nimes where I met Steve and our mutual friend Lise Bousquet.
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Andre’s work is both minimal as well as abstract, the best pieces I have seen was at the Musee de Beaux Arts in Nimes, some 20 years ago. An English sculptor friend Steven Maas, introduced Andre’s work to me at the time of my stay and ever since I have found Andre’s work [and Steve's] to be as powerful as Judd, and in many ways they have architectural twist to them.
image: courtesy of galerie tschudi and artnet.com
A minimalist artist, Donald Judd trained as an engineer, and later earned his degree in philosophy at Columbia. The sheer simplicity of his art, and his installations belies the sophistication of the work, effervescent, elegant and almost primal, these pieces are made mostly in strong colours out of aluminium. His art is best enjoyed through a personal experience up close. True to his philosophy, Judd maintained that most of his work be left and restored precisely where they have been first installed, before he died. Through his work, Judd proceeded to blur the boundaries between art, furniture, architecture and installation art. Carl Andre’s art is somewhat less refined, more raw, and varied. Judd is incredibly controlled in comparison.
image: courtesy of wikipedia
One of the most incredible artist alive today, Anish does it with simple materials, but he draws out the energies from them, from within. Spiritual in some ways, aggressive yet subtle and engaging at the same time. Red is his colour, and stainless steel is his material. Beautifully made pieces, as with Donald Judd’s work, precise and beautiful in its form, but also painfully sophisticated in how it is made. As public art, the work is very powerful and engaging, as with this stainless steel installation in a public plaza.
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