Fred Sandback: Light, Space, Facts
Texts by Harry Cooper and Briony Fer
Fred Sandback’s yarn installations are inseparable from their environments: the light and space that surround and complete them. Employing acrylic yarn in his large, deceptively simple constructions, Sandback “create[s] dizzying effects of space and geometry…. The wonderful paradox of the work… is insistently trifling and insistently perfect” (The Washington Post). This comprehensive monograph features a photographic tour of the exhibition, along with illustrations from the artist’s work in other media, including drawings, wooden relief, and wire and yarn sculptures from each decade of his career, as well as authoritative essays and unpublished notes and drawings from the artist’s archive.
Publisher: Prestel/Glenstone
Artists: Fred Sandback
Contributors: Harry Cooper, Briony Fer
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover, Linen with jacket
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 11 in (22.2 x 27.9 cm)
Pages: 108
Reproductions: 46 color
ISBN: 9783791355542
Retail: $49.95 | £35
Status: Available
Fred Sandback
Fred Sandback (1943–2003) was an American artist known for sculptures that outlined planes and volumes in space. Though he employed metal wire and elastic cord early in his career, the artist soon dispensed with mass and weight by using acrylic yarn to create works that address their physical surroundings, the “pedestrian space,” as Sandback called it, of everyday life. By stretching lengths of yarn horizontally, vertically, or diagonally at different scales and in varied configurations, the artist developed a singular body of work that elaborated on the phenomenological experience of space and volume with unwavering consistency and ingenuity.
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