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.
Contact : Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, phone (+43-1) 711 36-250, e-mail:
[kathrin.pokorny-nagel@MAK.at] How to get there from Brno: Take the
highway D1 and continue on the 38 E 59 towards Jihlava, pass
Jihlava and continue 405 towards Brtnice How to get there from
Prague: Take the highway D1 and continue on the 38 E 59 towards
Jihlava, pass Jihlava and continue 405 towards Brtnice How to get
there from Vienna: Take the "Donauufer" highway A22/E49/E59 and
continue on the B303 towards Hollabrunn/Znojmo/Prague, pass
Hollabrunn and continue to the border crossing
Kleinhaugsdorf/Znojmo; in Czechia, take the 38/E59 via Znojmo and
Moravske Budejovice to Stonarov where you turn off onto the 402;
continue for three kilometers before turning off onto the 403; you
will reach the center of Brtnice after 4 kilometers.
MAK Vienna
