The Romanian artist André Cadere was a key figure of the Minimalist and Conceptual Art scene of the 1970s. Cadere became well known for his ‘barres de bois rond’ – round painted wood bars of varying size – which were minimalist art objects as well as instruments of artistic intervention. Handmade by the artist, the bars were composed of painted cylindrical segments, whose height corresponded to their radius. The individual units were assembled following a mathematical system of permutation whose logical sequence was disturbed by one error respectively.

Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, October 2007 – January 2008.

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