Works on Paper
26.01.2024 – 02.03.2024
Fred Sandback
Galerie Siedlarek
The exhibition presents a survey of Fred Sandback’s graphic works made between 1972 and 1984, providing unique insight into the relationship between three-dimensional situations and two-dimensional paper in his work.
Minimalist sculptor Fred Sandback was born in 1943 in Bronxville, New York. After receiving a B.A. in philosophy at Yale University, he studied sculpture at Yale School of Art and Architecture. Beginning in the 1960s Sandback created what he called “drawings in space”: large-scale yet barely visible sculptures rendered from colored yarn or elastic cord, inscribed in the volume of a specific interior at a given point in time. With subtle precision and an extreme economy of means, he created iconic sculptural installations that create striking perceptual effects in response to the surrounding architecture.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Sandback translated his spatial ideas from three to two dimensions using the visual and technical capabilities unique to printmaking. Apparent iterations of his sculptures, Sandback’s graphic works draw particular attention to the concept of the line itself and its unique potential in relation to space. Beyond its geometric function, Sandback emphasized that a line represents “a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time,” a distinct entity that “mediates the quality or timbre of a situation.”
Fred Sandback’s work has been presented internationally in numerous solo-exhibitions, most recently at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, in 2023. His work is represented in major public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art. Sandback died in New York City in 2003.
Galerie Siedlarek
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