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FRED SANDBACK, Untitled (Leaning Vertical Construct

Untitled (Leaning Vertical Construction), 1974
Four strands of black acrylic yarn. 109 5/8 x 9 in. (278.4 x 22.9 cm). This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the estate and numbered Fred Sandback Estate Number 2100.

PROVENANCE Estate of Fred Sandback; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
"Simplicity of form is not necessarily simplicity of experience," (Robert Morris, Minimal Art, Cologne, 2006, p. 78).   "Sandback's quiet gestures and unassuming, infinitely portable materials yield vibrant presences that shift between the ephemeral and the permanent. With a line and thin air, he brings a perceptual field into being, making a place from hitherto undefined space. In this quest to offer the viewer a sense of place, Sandback expresses the mythic need for orientation in the boundless universe and gives form to the inquiries that have preoccupied philosophers since antiquity. His art echoes Aristotle's topos, a placespace, and Martin Heidegger's yearning for 'a dwelling for man in the midst of things,'" (S. Delehanty, Fred Sandback: Sculpture, Seattle, 1991, p. 13).

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