The American artist Fred Sandback became famous in the 1970s for his sculptures made of coloured acrylic yarn, which he used to rewrite geometric bodies or to impact upon spatial situations.
Biography
1943 born in Bronxville, New York
Philosophiestudium in Yale
1969 Master of Fine Arts in sculpting at the Yale School of Art and Architecture
numerous international exhibitions among others 1969 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; 1973 Kunsthalle Bern, 1978 for the firts time at the MoMA, New York
2003 died in New York
2006 Retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
