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Specific Objects
With works by Donald Judd, Pieter Geraedts, Geert Lap and Maria van Kesteren
Specific Objects presents prints and a sculpture from the 1980s and 1990s by Donald Judd (1928-1994) together with works by three Dutch makers: Maria van Kesteren (1933-2020), Pieter Geraedts (b.1940) and Geert Lap (1951-2017). All three have transcended the boundaries of applied art, Van Kesteren in wood, and Geraedts and Lap in ceramics, searching for the perfect form and abandoning all functional restrictions. By employing a single colour and simple geometric shapes such as spheres, ovals, cubes, cones and pyramids, they created series of related objects with minimal variations. It is no coincidence that their pure and elegant treatment of space resembles the prints of Donald Judd, a prominent representative of Minimalism. Van Kesteren, Geraedts and Lap succeeded in translating the ideals of Minimal art into the media of applied art.
The Minimalist aesthetic continues to influence contemporary design and everyday objects to this day.
Caption: Maria van Kesteren (1933-2020), Form, 2009, turned and painted wood, Kunstmuseum Den Haag – gift of the Altena Boswinkel Collection