William Packer’s review “Tate Gallery: Carl Andre's Bricks” was published in the Financial Times on May 3, 1977, at the height of the infamous "Bricks in the Tate" public controversy. This media and public uproar had been sparked by the Tate Gallery's purchase of Carl Andre’s minimalist sculpture, "Equivalent VIII" – a rectangular arrangement of 120 firebricks, which has since become a classic example of conceptual art. With "Untitled (Carl Andre’s Bricks)", the artist duo Claire Fontaine pulls this critique from the archive and brings it back into scrutiny as a large-scale silkscreen.

Previously, the collective restaged one of the "Equivalent" sculptures by laying rectangular blocks of 120 bricks on the floor, and covering each brick with a book cover. This work, "Equivalent (I)" (2007), is held in the collection of the Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR). With "Untitled (Carl Andre’s Bricks)", Claire Fontaine furthers their investigation into Andre, inviting a contemporary reading of this figure whose work is both seminal for art historians and mired in controversy. - Collection Filiep and Mimi Libeert.