Equivalent VIII

Equivalent VIII, occasionally 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.^[1]

References

External links

The Bricks at the Tate Modern

Tate

Galleries	Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate Modern Tate St Ives Barbara Hepworth Museum

Directors	Sir Charles Holroyd (Keeper) D. S. MacColl (Keeper) Charles Aitken J. B. Manson Sir John Rothenstein Sir Norman Reid Sir Alan Bowness Sir Nicholas Serota

Benefactors	Sir Henry Tate Sir Hugh Lane Sir Joseph Duveen, Bt. Sir Charles Clore Outset Contemporary Art Fund

Exhibitions	Turner Prize 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 List of Turner Prize winners and nominees The Weather Project Embankment Test Site Shibboleth

Other	Frankfurt Art Theft Tate Etc. Purchase of The Upper Room

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