Luis Barragán/Fred Sandback: The Properties of Light

Publisher: Proyectos Monclova / Hatje Cantz

Publication Date: 2018

Texts by Daniel Garza Usabiaga and Federica Zanco. Conversation with Roger Duffy, Amavong Panya, and Lilian Tone by Edward Vazquez

In 2016, sculptures by Fred Sandback (1943–2003) were installed in the Casa Luis Barragán, the Casa Antonio Gálvez, Cuadra San Cristóbal, and the Casa Gilardi of Luis Barragán (1902–1988). The American minimalist and the Pritzker Prize-winning Mexican architect share a common interest in the properties of light and color; the remarkable interplay between their works, documented in photographs, is presented for the first time in this publication, with essays by Barragán Foundation Director Federica Zanco and curator Daniel Garza Usabiaga, as well as a conversation between architect Roger Duffy, artist Amavong Panya, curator Lilian Tone, and author Edward Vazquez.

Details

Publisher: Proyectos Monclova / Hatje Cantz

Artist: Fred Sandback

Publication Date: 2018

ISBN: 9783775743822

Retail: $60

Status: Not Available

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 12 in | 24.8 x 30.5 cm

Pages: 160

Reproductions: 50 color

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.

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