From the late seventy’s Sandback, considered as one of the greatest exponents of Minimal Art, dispensed from the mass and decided to use acrylic and metallic yarn instead to create his sculptures. He laid off all kind of content and opted for the pure presence, for the simplicity of the sculpture shape. Sandback created a unique collection of works that refer to the physical space around and encourages the phenomenological experience of space.
Blanca de Navarra space showed several sculptures made only with yarn. By using this material Sandback creates structures and highlights plans and volumes in empty space. He also explores the strange nature of the relationship between illusion and reality.
Orfila, instead, held a collection of drawings that date from the 70’s to year 2000. The originality of this drawings consists in the fact that with them Sandback is not exploring an ideal space but one known, concrete and real.
His work is present at some of the most important collections of the world as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Art Institute, Chicago; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Centre Georges Pompidou, París or Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
