Untitled

Mediums: enamel, aluminum.
Location: the Guggenheim Museum, New York (the USA).

This work is a typical example of minimalism and Judd’s early creative experiments in this area. Having abandoned the painting, which has only a two-dimensional expression, the artist began searching for the method that would best reveal the actual space in art and came to simple geometric forms. The dark-coloured aluminum box stands directly on the gallery floor and draws your attention with its raw and unconditional materiality. Focusing not on the work itself, but on the space that it occupies, Donald Judd says that the material is always more important and its impact is much stronger and more tangible than just the pigment applied on the canvas.