Donald Judd
Untitled, 1989

Clear anodized aluminum
100 × 200 × 200 cm
(39 5/16 × 78 11/16 × 78 3/4 inches)

Artist
Type
Object 67
Date
1980s 28
Location

This object is one of a group of twelve unique works created for Donald Judd’s solo exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in 1989 (Donald Judd, August 27–October 15). Each of the pieces share the same exterior dimensions, while the interiors reveal a variety of combinations of colored anodized aluminum and acrylic planes. Although they were conceived and executed as a group, Judd considered them to be “totally distinct” within a “very large” number of possible variations.1

A sheet of black anodized aluminum bisects the bottom panel of this work and extends halfway up. Judd installed two of the other works from the Baden-Baden exhibition in his Print Building in Marfa, Texas.

1Jochen Poetter and Rosemarie E. Pahlke, “Back to Clarity: Interview with Donald Judd,” in Donald Judd, exh. cat. (Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989), 87.

Selected Bibliography

Puvogel, Renate. “Dan Flavin and Donald Judd in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.” Parkett, no. 22, 1989, 22 (ill.).

Donald Judd. Exh. cat. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989, cover, 142–43 (cat. no. 12), 162, 165.

Donald Judd. Exh. cat. Göttingen: Steidl; New York: David Zwirner, 2011, 37, 51, 130 (ill.).