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58832 Brtnice (CZ)
Organiser: Moravská galerie Brno & MAK Vienna
www.mak.at
Jun / 4 / 2008 to Oct / 26 / 2008 ¬
Exhibition Investigates Correspondences Between Josef Hoffmann and Donald Judd
Brtnice (CZ) // Josef Hoffmann Museum
By juxtaposing the work of Josef Hoffmann and Donald Judd, the Josef Hoffmann Museum in Brtnice (CZ) explores their contribution to the development of formal reduction in design and their spatial approach in the exhibition "Hypothesis“.
Tags: exhibition, art, furniture design, architecture
At first glance, there seems to be little linking the work of American minimal artist Donald Judd (1928–1994) and that of Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956). However, when investigating both their positions at a practical, formal and theoretical level, baffling correspondences emerge as regards the consistent development of formal reduction in design, the architectural approach, the “interplay” of volumes and surfaces.
The ideal aspiration of a holistic life design, bringing art, architecture and life as such into harmonious correspondence, is manifest both in the work of Donald Judd and that of Josef Hoffmann. In its structively oriented approach, Judd’s work connects with Hoffmann’s creations, as it was Hoffmann whose stringent designs enshrined geometrics and tectonics not only in the architecture, but also in the design of modernist Vienna.
Josef Hoffmann Museum in Brtnice (CZ)
A joint branch of the Moravská galerie, Brno and the MAK Vienna.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 10.00 a.m.–5 p.m.
July & August: daily 10.00–5 p.m.
Table with marble top by Josef Hoffmann (1902) and book shelf by Donald Judd (1984)
© Sylva Koukalová / MAK
Birthplace of Josef Hoffmann, Brtnice
© Wolfgang Woessner / MAK
