Installation view, “Donald Judd,” David Zwirner, New York, 2011 (Judd Art © Judd Foundation. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photos by Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART)
David Zwirner
525/533 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Saturday, June 25, free
212-727-2070
www.davidzwirner.com
www.juddfoundation.org
In 1989, Donald Judd presented a major installation at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden of a dozen large-scale open-box floor works that featured color, a rarity for Judd in pieces that size. David Zwirner has gathered together nine of the works and spread them throughout his connected galleries at 525 and 533 West Nineteenth St., along with several of the minimalist artist’s pencil and ballpoint sketches of the original layout. Each of the nine untitled Menziken boxes are an identical 39.375 x 78.75 x 78.75, composed of anodized aluminum, with different-colored Plexiglas panels inside. The black, blue, and amber sheets, not all placed in the same locations within each box, react with the brightness from the ceiling skylights to project changing reflections against the inner sides of the rectangle boxes, as if they’re alive. Thus, Judd has reshaped the space inside and outside, within each individual box as well as of the gallery space itself, in a quiet yet dynamic presentation. The show concludes June 25 with a pair of special screenings held at 519 West Nineteenth St., where, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, Zwirner will show Michael Blackwood’s 2010 documentary The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd, consisting of footage of Judd (1928-94) from his homes in SoHo in 1972 and in Marfa, Texas, in 1975. That will be followed at 1:00, 3:00, and 5:00 by the 2010 film Marfa Voices, in which director Rainer Judd, the artist’s daughter, speaks with people who knew her father in Marfa. An advance RSVP to mackie@davidzwirner.com or 212-727-2070 ext122 is required for Marfa Voices, which will be introduced by the filmmaker and followed by a Q&A; a reception will follow the 5:00 screening.