Event details 
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
6:30 pm

Dia Chelsea
537 West 22nd Street
New York, New York

Free. Spaces are limited; register here.

In collaboration with the Fred Sandback Archive and Dancing Foxes Press, Dia is pleased to launch the publication Interaction: Fifty Years of Fred Sandback and Dia Art Foundation.

In 1968, Fred Sandback (1943–2003) mounted his first solo exhibition at Heiner Friedrich’s Munich gallery, displaying works made from elastic cord or acrylic yarn that traced planes and volumes in space. Thus began a long-term relationship that extended to Dia Art Foundation, the institution co-founded by Friedrich in 1974. Until now, little has been published on Sandback’s extraordinary alliance with Dia. Essayists Lynne Cooke, Julian M. Rose, Corinna Thierolf, and Edward A. Vazquez, as well as conversation partners Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Curtis Harvey, unearth and explore archival documents, sketches, and photographs to reveal how the institution offered Sandback both space and time to meticulously hone his sculptural interventions in the architectural environments of Dia, including the Fred Sandback Museum in Winchendon, Massachusetts, and Dia Beacon, New York.

A conversation between three of the authors—Rose, Vazquez, and Guidelli-Guidi—takes place at Dia Chelsea’s program space, presented by Jessica Morgan, Dia’s director, and moderated by Humberto Moro, deputy director of program.