Minimalism & the Land
Donald Judd, Untitled Donald Judd, Untitled, 1969, ten copper units, each 9 x 40 x 31 inches with 9 inch intervals (Guggenheim Museum, New York) Speakers: Dr. Shana Gallagher-Lindsay, Dr. Beth Harris
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- [MUSIC PLAYING]
- >>: WE'RE LOOKING AT A SCULPTURE THAT IN MANY WAYS DOESN'T REALLY
- SEEM TO BE --
- >>: -- A SCULPTURE.
- >>: RIGHT.
- >>: IT'S NOT FREE-STANDING.
- >>: IT'S NOT.
- IT'S MORE LIKE A RELIEF, BUT --
- >>: -- IT'S NOT REALLY A RELIEF.
- >>: NOT REALLY, BECAUSE THERE IS NO BACKGROUND THAT IT IS
- ATTACHED TO.
- >>: AND THEY'RE ISOLATED UNITS ALL THE SAME.
- >>: THAT'S RIGHT.
- THIS IS A WORK BY DONALD JUDD, AND IT'S A PIECE OF MINIMALIST
- SCULPTURE.
- AND IT WAS DONE IN 1969, AND IT'S AN UNTITLED WORK.
- HE WOULD HAVE HAD THE EXACT SAME FORM REPLICATED OVER AND OVER
- AGAIN.
- SO EACH ONE OF THOSE BOXES THAT YOU SEE THERE WERE NOT MADE BY
- HIM AND IT WAS ALSO MADE IN A FACTORY.
- SO IT HAS A KIND OF MACHINEMADE AESTHETIC TO IT.
- >>: SOMEHOW IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE IT IS MADE TO SORT OF INTERACT
- IN THE SPACE OF THE GALLERY.
- >>: ABSOLUTELY.
- IN FACT HE IS VERY SPECIFIC IN GIVING INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO
- HANG THIS, YOU KNOW, HOW TO ATTACH IT TO THE WALL, THAT EACH
- ONE IS TO BE SPACED SIX INCHES APART, AND USUALLY THE WORK IS
- SUPPOSED TO GO, THE FIRST TIME IT WAS MADE, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO
- BE EVENLY SPACED ALL THE WAY UP TO THE CEILING.
- SO IT WOULD BE SOMEWHAT DICTATED BY --
- >>: -- BY THE HEIGHT.
- >>: -- BY THE NORMAL HEIGHT OF THE CEILING.
- OF COURSE THAT WOULD CHANGE DEPENDING ON WHAT SPACE.
- >>: BUT THIS ONE DOESN'T DO THAT.
- >>: RIGHT.
- I THINK THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH WE ARE LOOKING AT
- PARTICULARLY.
- >>: AND IT IS MADE OF SOMETHING THAT HAS A REFLECTIVE SURFACE.
- >>: HIGH SHEEN TO IT.
- THE OUTSIDE OF IT IS BRASS AND THEN THE -- IT'S DIFFICULT TO
- SEE HERE, BUT THERE ARE PLEXI KIND OF WINDOWS THAT ARE THE
- TOPS OF EACH ONE OF THESE BOXES.
- SO YOU CAN SEE THROUGH IT AND SOMETIMES DEPENDING ON WHICH
- PIECE IT IS, THEY'RE INTENSELY COLORED LIKE PINK, OR KIND OF A
- YELLOWISH COLOR OR TRANSLUCENCY.
- SO IT CREATES, IT INTERACTS WITH THE SPACE AND CREATES A KIND OF
- A SHADOW AND COLORISTIC EFFECT ON THE WALL, THE BLANK WALL OF
- THE GALLERY.
- >>: SO SHOULD WE BE THINKING BACK HERE TO SCULPTURES MADE OF
- BRONZE?
- >>: I THINK SO, BUT ALSO THE NEGATION OF THAT.
- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JUDD AND OTHER MINIMALISTS ARE TRYING TO
- DO ARE TO BE OF THEIR TIME.
- SO THERE THE WHOLE TRADITION THAT
- HE IS CONTINUING OF MODERN ART, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU CHOOSE THE
- MATERIALS AND THE THEMES OF YOUR OWN TIME, AND HERE TO CHOOSE
- SOMETHING THAT IS BRASS WHICH CAN BE USED IN OLDER ART, BUT TO
- MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT'S SHEET METAL, SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT
- OF A FACTORY, AND IN FACT IS NOT MADE BY HIM BUT MADE BY OTHER
- WORKERS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
- >>: SO IT SPEAKS TO OUR FACTORY INDUSTRIAL CULTURE.
- >>: EXACTLY, AND IT IS WHAT IT IS.
- IT DOESN'T DISGUISE ITSELF.
- HE IS VERY EXPLICIT ABOUT NOT TRYING TO MAKE ILLUSIONISTIC
- ART.
- SO HE DOESN'T WANT TO MAKE A SCULPTURE LOOK LIKE A PERSON OR
- A SPACE THAT ISN'T THERE.
- AND SO THERE ARE CLEARLY BOXES AND THE PLEXI ALLOWS YOU TO SEE
- THAT THEY ARE NOT SOLID.
- SO THERE'S A CLARITY AND A LITERAL QUALITY THAT HE WANTS TO
- BRING OUT.
- >>: AND IT ALSO REMINDS ME OF A SKYSCRAPER, OTHER KINDS OF
- MODERNIST FORMS.
- >>: RIGHT.
- IT DOES EVOKE THAT AND JUST THE SHEER REPLICATION OF THE SAME
- FORM OVER AND OVER AGAIN SUGGESTS --
- >>: -- VERY MODERN.
- >>: YEAH, SUGGESTS MACHINE PRODUCTION,
- AND ONE THING BEING --
- >>: -- GOING SHOPPING, AND SEEING EVERY THING THE SAME IN
- THE GROCERY STORE.
- >>: EXACTLY.
- >>: -- NINE HUNDRED VERSIONS OF THE SAME THING.
- >>: KIND OF A PRODUCTLIKE QUALITY TO IT.
- IT'S EASY TO SEE HOW THE CLEAN QUALITIES OF IT, THE SHININESS
- OF IT, AND ALSO THE PLEXI MAYBE AT FIRST GLANCE IT SEEMS
- OVERSIMPLIFIED, BUT ON FURTHER SCRUTINY THERE IS A LOT OF COLOR
- AND REFLECTION AND LIGHT AT PLAY.
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