Ocula Report 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life 15 Feb 2019 : Natalie King for Ocula 'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
Ocula Conversation Ellen Altfest The paintings of Ellen Altfest are ethereal in their detail. Fields of minutiae come together as pulsating images; small brushstrokes of oil paint accumulate over a series of months to single out seemingly innocuous subjects, such as a hand resting atop patterned fabric (The Hand, 2011) or a deep green cactus reaching upwards from beneath a bed of...
Ocula Report Colomboscope 2019: Cross Currents and Dissonance 8 Feb 2019 : Nada Raza for Ocula On the rooftop of the former Rio Hotel complex in Colombo, it was hard to ignore the high-rise buildings, still under construction, blocking all but a sliver of what used to be an open view over Slave Island, once an island on Beira Lake that housed slaves in the 19th century, and now a downtown suburb. The hotel was set alight during the...
Donald Judd was a highly regarded American sculptor and critic. Born in Missouri, Judd moved to New York where he attended the Art Students League before completing graduate studies in art history at Columbia University. Through his practice and writing, Judd had a significant influence on the course of late 20th century sculpture and although he strongly rejected the term, he became a representative of the Minimalist art movement.
Arguably one of the most important American post-war artists, Judd created works that aimed for clarity and autonomy. Working mainly with industrial materials such as Plexiglass, metal, and plywood, Judd demonstrated a fundamental interest in the formal properties of colour, material, form, and space. Pertinent to his practice was a consideration of how a sculpture could exist in a space and how viewers could navigate around them. In doing this, Judd engaged the viewer, making them more aware of their bodies and the way in which they inhabit different spaces, be they public or private. Judd described his own works as 'the simple expression of complex thought.'
Judd’s work is held in many major collections, including the Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Judd’s 1964 essay Specific Objects cemented him as the leading artist and theorist of the Minimalist movement, despite his objections to what he deemed a generalised label.
Donald JuddUntitled, 1991 Clear anodized aluminum and transparent amber acrylic sheet
Donald JuddUntitled (90-7 Bernstein), 1990 Red anodized aluminum with transparent plexiglas
Donald JuddWorking Papers: Donald Judd Drawings, 1963-1993 Installation view, Sprüth Magers London
Related Press Brutalist sculpture is the star act at this exhibition in Brussels Wallpaper* : 10 May 2018 'I have a strong credo that an exhibition must embody real objects,' says curator Matthieu Poirier prefacing a walkthrough of The Brutal Play, in which works from Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Robert Morris occupy the Fondation CAB in Brussels. 'These objects remind the viewers of their own bodies.'
Related Press Donald Judd and Kazimir Malevich square off at Galerie Gmurzynska’s new Zurich space Wallpaper* : 26 June 2017 In 1994, Donald Judd was preparing for The Moscow Installation, an exhibition with Kazimir Malevich that would be the first to align the work of the two titans of 20th-century art. 'I would love it but what would Malevich say?' Judd had said when Galerie Gmurzynska had proposed the idea. Sadly, Judd passed away before the exhibition opened and now...
Related Press Turns out the American Dream is more of a nightmare Apollo Magazine : 23 March 2017 The entrance hall to the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery at the British Museum is blood-red, and covered in Andy Warhol's psychedelic screenprints of Marilyn Monroe's face.It's a punchy start to the exhibition, The American Dream: Pop to the Present.
Related Press Artist’s toolbox: Donald Judd’s writings reveal a whole new layer of meaning to his work Wallpaper* : 8 February 2017 During his lifetime, Donald Judd (1928–1994) compiled four major collections of his writings. These volumes, which include his gallery reviews, book reviews, essays, articles, statements and reports have until now been considered the artist's written work in its entirety. But a new collection, Donald Judd Writings, containing previously unpublished...
Related Video & Audio A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection Hauser & Wirth : 8 May 2018 Unfolding across all three floors of Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street, A Luta Continua is the first United States presentation of the Sylvio Perlstein Collection. Curated by David Rosenberg, the exhibition presents more than 360 works by some 250 artists. Among these are Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Diane Arbus, Hans Bellmer, André Breton,...
