Fred Sandback: Chinati Foundation. (Marfa, TX).(Brief Article)

For the past thirty-five years Fred Sandback has been creating barely-there yarn installations that exist somewhere between object and line, sculpture and drawing. The thin fuzzy line of Sandback's yarn is chockfull of an art-historical spatial discourse that connects his work to both Alberta Giacometti and Barnett Newman, who seem to provide some of the groundwork for Sandback--as do Karl Ioganson's "Constructions" in wire and string, though those lines are resolutely unfuzzy. (Sandback's prints, not on view here, bear a striking resemblance to Ioganson's drawings.)

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