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Tate Modern Exhibition

Donald Judd

5 February – 25 April 2004
Donald Judd Untitled 1984

Donald JuddUntitled  1984

Private collection Switzerland Photo: Doris Quarella. Art © Judd Foundation / VAGA, New York / DACS, London 2004

Donald Judd Untitled 1984

Donald Judd Untitled 1984

One of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. This exhibition is the first substantial retrospective of his work in three-dimensions since 1988, and the first to trace his career up to his death in 1994.

Working in New York in the 1960s, Judd became known as one of the key exponents of ‘Minimalism’, but it was a label that he strongly rejected. Although he shared many of the principles identified with Minimalist art — the use of industrial materials to create abstract works that emphasise the purity of colour, form, space and materials — he preferred to describe his own work as ‘the simple expression of complex thought’. 

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    In his critical writing on Claes Oldenburg during the 1960s Donald Judd explained how emotional content might be conveyed through representational imagery, without the emotion depending on either the identity of the represented object or the subjective mood of the artist. Such art was neither representational, nor abstract, nor expressive in the usual understanding of these general terms. To establish the specificity of his position – through Oldenburg – Judd resorted to catachresis and syllepsis, rhetorical devices that operate where more familiar language fails.

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