NEW YORK, NY.- In the fall of 2017,
The Museum of Modern Art will present the most comprehensive exhibition of the work of Donald Judd (American, 1928–1994) to date. Comprising more than 100 works of art gathered from public and private collections around the world, this retrospective aims to provide a multifaceted perspective on Judd. Organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, in collaboration with Judd Foundation, the exhibition will be installed in the Museum's second-floor Contemporary Galleries. Building on intensive curatorial research, the exhibition will advance scholarship on Judd's art and introduce his work to new generations of viewers. MoMA will be the sole venue for the exhibition.
"Half a century after Judd established himself as a leading figure of his time, his legacy demands to be considered anew," said Ms. Temkin. "The show will cover the entire arc of Judd's career, including not only quintessential objects from the 1960s and 1970s, but also works made before he arrived at his iconic formal vocabulary, and selections from the remarkable developments of the 1980s."
"One of the most important aspects for the understanding of Don's work is to see it in context with the spaces or with other works of his. This exhibition will give us a good chance to demonstrate just how the art came into being and what Don accomplished with it. In context the individual works gather meaning," said Flavin Judd, Co-President, Judd Foundation.
The exhibition and its catalogue will address the great breadth of Judd's artistic vision, which encompassed not only sculptural forms but also painting, printmaking, writing, art criticism, architecture, furniture design, and land preservation, as represented in Judd’s permanently installed homes and studios in Marfa, Texas, and at 101 Spring Street, New York.
"I made my work to be intelligible to me, with the casual assumption that if it made sense to me, it would to someone else.” —Donald Judd, "Art and Architecture," 1983
