Bethany.Ink

March 20, 2011 10:34 am
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Jörg Hausmann: “Artists today have always dreamed of producing art for everyone…It seems to me that artists today do anything but that. The opposite is even the case. As soon as an artist becomes in any way known, gets a few good reviews, or can fall back on an astute manager, the prices rise. What do you think of this development?

Fred Sandback: I’m not sure if what you’re saying is quite true. But if you want one of my objects, for example, you can simply imitate it. All you need is a piece of string.

JH: But would I then have a genuine Sandback?

FS: Are you claiming that there’s something special about my strings that other strings don’t have?

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Interview with Fred Sandback, 1969.

1. Writing about Fred Sandback is turning out to be more difficult than I’d initially imagined.

2. The last sentence of Michael Fried’s “Art and Objecthood” (‘Presentness is grace.’) makes me cringe every single time I read it.

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