World and a string: Yve-Alain Bois on Fred Sandback.(Passages)

IN 1986 FRED SANDBACK concluded one of his rare written statements with the words: "Perhaps indeed, I have nomadicized my existence." He was speaking about his unexpected disaffection for the museum dedicated to his work in Winchendon, Massachusetts, which he had opened five years earlier with the financial help of the Dia Art Foundation.

The idea of the museum had been "quirky," he readily admitted, but his work, not "easily acquired or preserved," had gradually become invisible. "I did feel that the work ought to exist somewhere in a reasonably ...

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