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".