Installation view of the exhibition Fred Sandback at David Zwirner in New York, dated 2010.
Installation view of the exhibition Fred Sandback at David Zwirner in New York, dated 2010.

Fred Sandback

David Zwirner and Zwirner & Wirth will present the work of American artist Fred Sandback (1943-2003) in two concurrent exhibitions.

Sandback's sculptures outline 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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A black acrylic yarn sculpture by Fred Sandback, titled Untitled (Sculptural Study, Two-part Vertical Construction), circa 1986 and 2009.

Fred Sandback

Untitled (Sculptural Study, Two-part Vertical Construction), c. 1986/2008
Black acrylic yarn
Situational: spatial relationships established by the artist; overall dimensions vary with each installation

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