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Open House
2006
The Chinati Foundation’s Open House
2006 will be held on Saturday, October
7 and Sunday, October 8. The
event will be co-hosted by the Judd
Foundation. The free weekend of art,
music, lectures, readings, and meals
will bring an international audience
of approximately 2,000 people
to Marfa and Far West Texas. Features
of this year’s Open House will
be a special installation by R O B E RT
I R W I N, and exhibitions of paintings
by J O S E F A L B E R S, and furniture by
D O N A L D J U D D .
Throughout the weekend there will
be open viewing of Chinati’s collection;
the Block, Donald Judd’s Marfa
residence, which features a permanent
installation of his work dating
from 1962-1978; and the Cobb
and Schindler Houses, permanently
installed with furniture by Rudolf
Schindler and paintings by Donald
Judd dating from 1956-1972. An exhibition
of wood and metal furniture
designed by Judd will be on view at
the Print Building in downtown Marfa.
All Open House exhibitions, talks,
performances, and meals are free to
the public.
A highlight of this year’s artistic program
will be a large temporary installation
and an exhibition of drawings
by R O B E RT I R W I N. Irwin’s oeuvre,
much of which has been created exclusively
for temporary situations, is
one of the most innovative and influential
in contemporary art. Throughout
his career, Irwin has developed
work in response to specific architectural
settings. He has created visually
stunning installations by altering
sites in subtle ways that emphasize
certain spatial characteristics while
dissolving others. A number of years
ago, Irwin began work on a permanent
installation for Chinati at the
site of a former U.S. Army hospital
dating from the 1930s. In anticipation
of that project, and to share with
Chinati’s audience the many steps
that lead to a realized work, the museum
will present two exhibitions at
Open House: one featuring Irwin’s
working drawings and another installation
using space, light, and scrim.
Open House
2006
El Open House de la Fundación Chinati
se celebrará el sábado 7 y domingo 8
de octubre, copatrocinado por la Fun-
dación Judd. El fin de semana de arte,
música, conferencias, lecturas y comi-
das gratis atraerá a Marfa y al oeste
de Texas un público internacional de
aproximadamente 2,000 personas. En-
tre los aspectos notables del evento este
año se cuentan una instalación especial
de R O B E RT I R W I N y exhibiciones de
pinturas de J O S E F A L B E R S y muebles de
D O N A L D J U D D.
Durante todo el fin de semana se po-
drá apreciar la colección de Chinati, La
Cuadra (residencia de Donald Judd en
Marfa, con una instalación permanente
de la obra de este artista que data de
1962-78), y las Casas Cobb y Schindler,
que cuentan con instalaciones perma-
nentes de muebles de Rudolf Schindler y
pinturas de Donald Judd correspondien-
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The drawings are a three-year record
of the artist’s evolving vision for his
permanent project at Chinati. The
artist will also create a special installation
for the museum’s large temporary
U-shaped exhibition space. Using
floor-to-ceiling-length “walls” of
translucent white and black scrim, as
well as window-tinting film, Irwin will
transform the space into a unified—
yet subtly changing—experience of
light and space. Both exhibitions will
remain on view at Chinati through
August 2007. Robert Irwin was born
in 1928 in Long Beach, California.
He lives and works in San Diego.
Irwin will be in Marfa for the Open
House weekend, and will give a talk
about his work at 5:30 PM on Saturday
at the Goode-Crowley Theatre.
This year’s Open House will also feature
an intimate installation of paintings
by J O S E F A L B E R S . Donald Judd
greatly respected Albers and wrote
about his work on several occasions.
(These writings are reprinted on
pages 57-69.) At Chinati in 1992,
Judd hosted an exhibition of Albers’s
photographs, pencil sketches, pen
and ink drawings, and oil studies.
The museum’s second exhibition of
Albers’s work will feature eight paintings
drawn from two of the artist’s
signature series: the Homages to the
Square, Albers’s best-known work,
and Variants, a series inspired by
the simple geometry and decoration
of Mexican adobe houses. Josef Albers
was born in Bottrop, Germany
in 1888. He studied art in Essen
tes al periodo 1956-1972. Se exhibirán
muebles de madera y metal hechos por
Donald Judd en el Print Building en el
centro de Marfa. Todas las exhibiciones,
conferencias, actuaciones y comidas
del Open House son gratuitas para el
público.
Una atracción especial del programa
artístico de este año será una instala-
ción temporal grande y una exhibición
de dibujos de R O B E RT IRWIN. Las obras
de Irwin, muchas de ellas creadas para
situaciones temporarias, están entre
las más innovadoras e influyentes en el
arte contemporáneo. A lo largo de su
carrera, Irwin ha desarrollado su obra
respondiendo a entornos arquitectóni-
cos específicos. Ha creado instalaciones
visualmente deslumbradoras alterando
los sitios de maneras sutiles que enfa-
tizan determinadas características es-
paciales y atenúan otras. Hace varios
años Irwin comenzó a trabajar en una
instalación permanente para Chinati en
el sitio de un antiguo hospital del Ejér-
cito estadounidense construido en la
década de 1930. Anticipándose a este
proyecto, y para compartir con el pú-
blico de Chinati los diversos pasos que
llevan a la realización de una obra, el
museo presentará dos exhibiciones du-
rante el Open House: una de los dibujos
de Irwin y otra utilizando espacio, luz
y tela transparente. Los dibujos atesti-
guan la evolución del concepto de Irwin
para su proyecto en Chinati, realizado
durante los últimos tres años. El artista
también creará una instalación especial
para el espacio de exhibición temporal
de Chinati en forma de U. Utilizando
ROBERT IRWIN, TEMPORARY INSTALLATION, CHINATI FOUNDATION.