“Donald Judd” Installation view at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul ©Thaddaeus RopacThaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents a solo exhibition of Donald Judd (b. 1928) from September 4 to November 4. Donald Judd is an artist whose minimalist works helped to change the landscape of art in the second half of the 20th century. His works are composed of simple forms that minimize the artist’s subjectivity, making the sense of the solid, the spatial, and the real central to his work.
In this retrospective of Judd’s 30-year career, the exhibition includes two paintings and a set of 20 woodcut prints, as well as his most iconic sculptures. The two paintings on view in the exhibition, both from 1960, were created shortly before Judd moved away from the canvas and began working in real space in 1962, so viewers can consider their connection to his dimensional works. Printmaking was the only two-dimensional medium that Judd continued to use after he shifted his practice to three-dimensional works in the early 1960s. In the case of the woodcut prints in this exhibition, they are characterized by their brilliant and varied use of color. Also, the works used hanji paper which Judd discovered during a visit to Korea in 1991.
Curated by Flavin Judd, Donald Judd’s son and co-president of the Donald Judd Foundation, the exhibition provides an opportunity to take a closer look at the artist’s work.
