April 21-May 26, 2001

Richard Artschwager, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle, and Lawrence Weiner

"wall>sculpture"

Margarete Roeder Gallery is pleased to present a group sculpture exhibition entitled Wall>Sculpture from April 21-May 26, 2001; the opening reception will take place on Saturday, April 21 from 5-7 PM. The exhibition, including works by Richard Artschwager, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle, and Lawrence Weiner, will address the variety of sculptural practices that has emerged in the last thirty-five years. No longer confined as discrete objects on a pedestal, these sculptures, dating from 1970 to 2001, employ walls or windows, even abandoning the status of the reified, unique object in their radical trajectories. Richard Artschwager will present his blp. The present examples, executed in self-adhesive rubber and dating from 1991, are but one version of this group of works that has encompassed an enormous range of media and scales since 1968. The elongated oval shape elegantly incorporates the familiar and abstract, mechanical and biomorphic. This panoply of signs dispersed throughout the space, appropriate a larger arena, both literally-in the typically broad distribution they receive in a space-and also conceptually as they slyly insinuate themselves as images, models, and tools. Fred Sandback will execute a new work, Construction in One Plane, 2001 for the gallery's space. With a familiar single material, acrylic yarn, Sandback has, for over thirty years, produced an astonishingly varied body of work. Working in both two and three dimensions the sculptures address their locale with a specificity and precision that establishes an interdependent relationship between the works, the space, and the viewer. Richard Tuttle's works in the exhibition, a paper octagon and a wooden slat, both from the early 1970s, recall his earlier shaped and painted wood reliefs of the mid 1960s. These later works, however, dispense entirely with the color and referential quality of the earlier ideogrammatic objects to assert their simple materiality. Lawrence Weiner's work Broken Off, 1970, is presented here as a text, but Weiner's intention is that the work may also be physically executed. Moreover, the radical practice of Weiner's text and material based work is further underscored by the sculpture's status as a "public freehold" work. Now under the auspices of the Vogel Collection, the work further negotiates the status of the discrete sculptural object by its irrefutable objecthood, as an object that may be brought into being by anyone at any time. For further information and photographs, please contact the gallery. TOP ©2000 MARGARETE ROEDER GALLERY 545 BROADWAY FOURTH FLOOR NEW YORK CITY