Fred Sandback: Simple Facts

Simple Facts features a focused selection of the artist’s installations and conceptual drawings spanning more than three decades of his practice. It marks a significant donation from the Fred Sandback Archive of a series of works originally conceived in 1975 for his exhibition at Kunstraum Munich: 64 variations of a three-part sculpture. They are shown alongside nine installation works highlighting Sandback’s singular, minimal formal vocabulary, and treatment of space.

By stretching single strands of yarn point-to-point to create geometric figures, Sandback has articulated a new form of “drawing in space”. He largely dispensed with mass and weight by using steel rod, elastic cord, and acrylic yarn to outline planes and volumes in space. With precision and an unmatched economy of means, Sandback has created iconic sculptures that succeed in altering our perception of visible sculptural objects and the invisible space in which they exist. Therefore, his work lives outside the bounds of temporality, always contemporary, always of the now.