Photograph of a rolled-up copper tape against a white background. The tape measure shows clear markings and curls into a wavy line with one end tightly rolled up.

Exhibition

Playing with space

Past exhibition

This autumn, four works by minimal artists from the collection are brought together in the large sculpture gallery. Minimal art originated in the late 1960s. Artists such as Carl Andre, Eva Hesse and Donald Judd bring sculpture back to basics: a work can be horizontal or upright, it occupies a space, is made of a certain material and has a structure and a form. The sculptures are simply what they are.

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1977

Space

Untitled is one of Donald Judd’s first works that cannot be viewed at a single glance. It is too large for that. Under the artist's supervision, six identical ‘boxes’ were mechanically produced from chipboard sheets. The size of the sheets determines the size of each component: 260 x 260 x 260 cm. The work is only ‘complete’ when you walk past it and change viewpoints. Untitled is above all a spatial experience. It is about dimensions and proportions, size and scale and about changing perspectives.

A photograph of a work of art consisting of several bundles of long, thin sticks leaning at an angle against a white wall.

Eva Hesse, Accretion, 1968

Chance

In Eva Hesse’s monumental Accretion, repetition of form is also the basic principle, but Hesse has handcrafted the individual elements herself. It appears as if she simply placed fifty tubes against the wall.

Sculpture gallery in the Quist wing

The sculpture gallery is part of the museum wing designed by Wim Quist. This wing opened on 11 June 1977. With this extension, the museum gained a place for large, space-defining sculptures by minimal artists. It also gave an impetus to new acquisitions. For example, the sculptures by Carl Andre, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris were all added to the collection in the 1970s.

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