FOUNDATION

"What a load of rubbish" – Daily Mirror, 1976

That was the reaction to Carl Andre's Equivalence VIII. It was accompanied by questions around why a bricklayer can't be seen as an artist and why those bricks were worth so much.

Nearly 50 years later, and in the year of Andre's death and we have an answer.

We are going to take 4,000 bricks and make a series of sculptures, transforming the bricks from industrial objects into art objects. We are then going to give them away. They will be going to construction projects big and small. Some will probably be kept as ornament, or souvenir, others will be supporting walls in museums, or lining gardens.

The life of these bricks will be documented through a five day performance and the journey they go on afterwards.

This is a project about transformation and context. About enabling art to be seen in the very spaces we live in. It is sculpture and architecture.