The Americas Society, New York
November 1, 2018
The Americas Society in New York hosts a book launch and panel discussion for Luis Barragán, Fred Sandback: Las propiedades de la luz/The Properties of Light.
Thursday, November 1, 6:30 PM (registration required)
This publication records the 2016 installations of Sandback sculptures in the Barragán-designed Casa Luis Barragán, Casa Antonio Gálvez, Cuadra San Cristóbal, and Casa Gilardi in Mexico City. Organized in collaboration with Proyectos Monclova, these installations brought together the work of the artist and the Pritzker Prize–winning architect, both of whom considered the properties of light and color to be central to their practices. The book features texts by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, artistic director of Zona Maco, and Federica Zanco, Barragán Foundation director, with contributions by architect Roger Duffy, artist Amavong Panya, curator Lilian Tone, and art historian Edward Vazquez, whose Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture, released last year, is the first comprehensive study on the artist. Moderated by Polina Stroganova, director of Proyectos Monclova, the panel features Duffy, Tone, and Vazquez.
Comparing Sandback’s approach with the work of architects in an Artforum review of Fred Sandback: Vertical Constructions at David Zwirner New York in 2016, Julian Rose wrote, "Architects draw in space in order to bring it under control, shaping it so that we may better orient ourselves in relation to our surroundings—Sandback, by contrast, wove his lines through space to activate it, and to remind us of our own role in helping bring it to life."
Currently on view at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey, Fred Sandback: Sculpture presents works dating from 1967 to 1982.
Image: Installation view of Fred Sandback’s Untitled (Ten-part Vertical Construction) (1997) at Casa Antonio Gálvez, Mexico City, 2016. © 2018 Barragán Foundation, Switzerland/SOMAAP. Artwork © 2018 Fred Sandback Archive. Photo by Moritz Bernoully. Courtesy Proyectos Monclova