Donald Judd: Cor-ten represents the first-ever focused examination of Judd's works in Cor-ten steel, which he began to produce in earnest in 1989, and would continue to elaborate on until his death in 1994. This volume is produced on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York and includes scholarship by art historian Courtney Fiske that contextualizes these specific works within Judd's oeuvre. Designed in close collaboration with Flavin Judd and Judd Foundation, Donald Judd: Cor-ten sheds new light on a body of work that represents the culmination of three decades of aesthetic output and underscores the mastery and control over material and space that characterizes Judd's practice as a whole.
The work of Donald Judd (1928-1994), one of the most significant
American artists of the postwar period, has come to define what has
been referred to as minimalist art-a label to which the artist
strongly objected on the grounds of its generality. The unaffected,
straightforward quality of Judd's work demonstrates his strong
interest in color, form, material, and space. With the intention of
creating work that could assume a direct material and physical
"presence" without recourse to grand philosophical statements, he
eschewed the classical ideals of representational sculpture to
create a rigorous visual vocabulary that sought clear and definite
objects as its primary mode of articulation.
Claudia Jolles (24.7.1958/Vienna) studied art history, archaeology
and german literature from 1979-84 at the universities of Bern,
Geneva and Zürich (lic.phil.I). 1985 she was Collaborator of the
show of Ilya Kabakov, "On the Margin", Kunsthalle Bern (Musée
Cantini, Marseille; Kunstverein Rheinlande und Westfalen,
Düsseldorf; Centre des Arts Plastiques, Paris). Since 1989 she is
working as a curator and freelance artcritic for different medias.
Since 1996 she is editor in chief of Kunstbulletin, Zürich - the
most read art magazine for contemporary art in Switzerland.
Flavin Judd is artistic director of Judd Foundation and the son of
Donald Judd. He oversees art installations, curatorial matters, and
architectural projects for the Foundation including the design of
the 101 Spring Street restoration in 2013. His art exhibitions,
films, publications, and buildings have all been recognized with
awards. He is coeditor of the recent publication Donald Judd
Writings (2016). He lives with his family in France.
"A pioneer of the New York art scene of the 1960s, Donald Judd is
not commonly associated with his works in COR-TEN."--David Prentice
"Architizer"
"Judd was a boundary-rupturing artist who dismissed the hierarchy
of materials."--Julie Baumgardner "Art in America"
"Judd's sculptures display a stoic sort of simplicity, each piece
exuding the striking shades of Cor-ten."--Ann Binlot
"Wallpaper"
Judd "radicalized sculpture with his use of nontraditional
materials" and "continue[s] to inspire artists today."--Suzanne
Charle "Gotham"
On Judd's CorTen steel works, "Some of the floor-based works from
1989 looked so good that it makes his works at Dia look dusty. Four
identically-sized units from 1991 with painted yellow backs,
arranged in a square formation, blew my mind."--Martin Roth "Blouin
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