MoMa’s Judd, between sculpture, architecture and design

Domus Magazine, September 21, 2020

Shortly after it had initially opened, MoMA’s most recent retrospective of Donald Judd was put on hold, the pandemic having forced the museum to temporarily close its doors. Now reopen, MoMA welcomes visitors again and provides a public hungry for art with the opportunity to re-discover the work of Donald Judd.

This long-overdue retrospective (open through January 21, 2021), his first in over 30 years, presents roughly 70 works by the iconic American artist. Concise and focused, MoMA’s “Judd” decidedly places sculpture at the center of his practice, which is too often reduced to minimalism—a term that, much like “sculpture,” he resisted. From early paintings executed in the early 1960s to the untitled metallic sculptures for which he is most often associated, the exhibition emphasizes the artist’s predilection for experimentation, highlighting the various ways through which he used form, materials, and surrounding environments to reshape traditional artistic practices.

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