Fred Sandback

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Fred Sandback (born August 29, 1943 in Bronxville , New York , † June 23, 2003 in New York City ) was an American artist who can be assigned to minimalism .

life and work

Sandback attended the Williston Academy and then spent an exchange year at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Heilbronn . He then studied from 1962 to 1966 at Yale University and from 1966 to 1969 sculpture at the Yale School of Art and Architecture in New Haven , Connecticut . On the initiative of the DIA Center for the Arts, the Fred Sandback Museum was founded in Winchendon, Massachusetts in 1981 and closed in 1996. Sandback died of suicide in New York in 2003. He became known for his minimalist sculptures, for which he stretched (colored) acrylic threads in rooms to form geometric figures.

He defined himself as a sculptor: “Over the years I have preferred the title 'sculptor'. I like its soundness, it points back to my early love for the sculpture of Michelangelo , Rodin and Henry Moore . "

He characterized his way of working as follows: “I moved away from the model of such individual sculptural volumes early on in favor of a sculpture that became less of a thing in itself and more of a diffuse interface between myself, my environment and others who populate this environment; built of thin lines that left enough space to move through and around it. Still a sculpture, albeit less dense, with an ambivalence between outside and inside. A drawing that you can live in. "

All quotations from: Fred Sandback, Here and Now , Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein , Vaduz, 2005.

Exhibitions

  • 2014: Fred Sandback. Drawings and sculptures. (First retrospective of Sandback's graphic work, supplemented by sculptures), Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop
  • 2014/2015: Fred Sandback: Drawings , in the Museum Wiesbaden , as in Bottrop, but supplemented by central sculptural works.

literature

  • Michael Semff , Andreas Strobl (ed.): The presence of the line. A selection of recent acquisitions of the 20th and 21st centuries from the State Graphic Collection Munich , Pinakothek der Moderne March 19 to June 21, 2009, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-927803-46-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Anthony, A Reunion in Heilbronn
  2. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 9, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bottrop.de
  3. Materialized Void in FAZ of November 28, 2014, page 38