Fred Sandback: Drawings
Publisher: Richter Verlag
Publish Date: 2014
Text by Dieter Schwarz
From the beginning of his career, Fred Sandback (1943–2003) used drawing to formulate his ideas of sculptural volume. In pictures of existing rooms, Sandback explored the possibilities of spaces and planes by drawing his famous horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines in colored pencil. In the 1980s, he expanded his drawing repertoire to include acrylic, the pochoir technique, and pastel. In these late drawings–considered to be more pictorial than his pencil sketches–Sandback elaborated on the experience of space, mass, and volume in ways impossible in a coherent space: many of these sculptural ideas are absolutely boundless. Only a specific section of the whole is intimated in the drawing, for which Sandback invented unusual techniques: actual incisions instead of drawn lines, for instance, or painterly traces on transparent film. Superbly produced and edited, Fred Sandback: Drawings assembles works from a thirty-year span, supplemented by sculptural works.
Details
Publisher: Richter Verlag
Artist: Fred Sandback
Contributors: Dieter Schwarz
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 9783941263680
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Status: Not Available
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in (26.7 x 31.8 cm)
Pages: 208
Reproductions: 239 color, 5 b&w
Artist and Contributors
Fred Sandback
Beginning in the late 1960s, Fred Sandback (1943–2003) developed a singular, minimal formal vocabulary that elaborated on the phenomenological experience of space and volume with unwavering consistency and ingenuity. He largely dispensed with mass and weight by using steel rod, elastic cord, and acrylic yarn to outline planes and volumes in space, creating an extensive body of works that inherently address their physical surroundings, the "pedestrian space," as he called it, of everyday life.
Dieter Schwarz
Dieter Schwarz was born in 1953 in Zurich, where he studied German and French literature, linguistics, and comparative literature. From 1985 to 1990, he was a curator at Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and from 1990 to 2017, he served as the director of Kunstmuseum Winterthur. Schwarz has curated numerous exhibitions and authored many publications on artists from early modernity to the present, including Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Jean Fautrier, Henri Michaux; the Italian Arte Povera artists Giovanni Anselmo, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, and Marisa Merz; and Richard Artschwager, James Bishop, John Chamberlain, Alfred Jensen, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Weiner, and, in particular, Gerhard Richter and Thomas Schütte. Schwarz is the author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Richter’s drawings. He is member of the Menil Drawing Institute Advisory Committee and serves on the board of Thomas Schütte Foundation.
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