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The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is a contemporary art museum located in Marfa, Texas, and based upon the ideas of its founder, artist Donald Judd.[1]

Chinati Foundation

Location of the Chinati Foundation in Texas
Established	1986
Location	1 Cavalry Row, Marfa, Texas, United States
Coordinates	30.298722°N 104.027009°W / 30.298722; -104.027009
Type	Art Museum
Curator	Ingrid Schaffner
Website	www.chinati.org

Mission

The specific intention of Chinati is to preserve and present to the public permanent large-scale installations by a limited number of artists. The emphasis is on works in which art and the surrounding landscape are inextricably linked. As Judd wrote in the foundation's first catalogue in 1987:[2]^{[citation needed]}

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Somewhere, just as the platinum iridium meter guarantees the tape measure, a strict measure must exist for the art of this time and place.

History

The Chinati Foundation is located on 340 acres (1.4 km²) of land on the site of former Fort D. A. Russell in Marfa, Texas, and in some buildings in the town's center.

Donald Judd first visited Marfa, Texas, in 1971, and moved himself from New York to Marfa as a full-time resident in 1977. Construction and installation at the site began in 1979 with initial assistance from the Dia Art Foundation in New York. The Chinati Foundation opened to the public in 1986 as an independent, non-profit, publicly funded institution.[3]

Chinati was originally conceived to exhibit the work of Donald Judd, John Chamberlain and Dan Flavin. However, the idea of the foundation developed further and its collection was enriched over years, and now the permanent collection has expanded to include Carl Andre, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Rabinowitch, and John Wesley. Each artist's work is installed in a separate building or outdoor area on the museum's grounds. In addition to the permanent collection, regular temporary exhibitions feature modern and contemporary art of diverse media.[4]

It was Judd's goal at Chinati to bring art, architecture, and nature together in order to form a coherent whole.

In October 2013 the foundation finalized plans for untitled (dawn to dusk), a 930 m² (10,000 sq ft), C-shaped concrete structure by Robert Irwin,[5] to join Chinati's permanent collection.[6] Opened in July 2016,[7] this installation utilizes Fort D. A. Russell's ruined former hospital, rebuilding the structure within its original footprint while incorporating several architectural interventions to modify the building's dynamics of light and space.[8]

Also in 2022, the Chinati Foundation – along with the Central Marfa Historic District in Marfa — was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places.[9]

Directors

• 1994–2010: Marianne Stockebrand
• 2011–2012: Thomas Kellein
• 2013–2022: Jenny Moore[10][11]

Collection

Artist	Work
Carl Andre	Words, 1958 - 1972 Chinati Thirteener, 2010
Donald Judd	100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982–1986 15 untitled works in concrete, 1980–1984 The Arena, 1980–1987
Ingólfur Arnarsson	untitled works, 1991–1992
Ilya Kabakov	School No. 6, 1993
John Chamberlain	Various works, 1972–1983
Richard Long	Sea Lava Circles, 1988
Dan Flavin	untitled (Marfa project), 1996
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen	Monument to the Last Horse, 1991
Roni Horn	Things That Happen Again, Pair Object VII (For a Here and a There), 1986–1988
David Rabinowitch	Elliptical Plane in 3 Masses and 4 Scales III, 1971–72 6-Sided Bar III, 1969
Robert Irwin	untitled (dawn to dusk), 2016
John Wesley	Al Capone Flouting the Law, 1970 Chateau, 1983 Choir, 1988 Day Titanic, 1984 Hannah in Shades, 1989 Hunting Dogs, 1985 Jack Frost, 1971 Mattress Cloud, 1981 Panoply: Eight Silkscreens Inspired by the Splendours of the Great War, 1971 Six-Legged Sheep, 1993 Tour de France, 1982

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Community

The Chinati Foundation sponsors art and education programs, establishing close links to the local community and other cultural institutions and universities in the United States and abroad. Started by Judd in 1989, Chinati's Artist in Residence Program provides artists from around the world an opportunity to develop and exhibit their work in a stimulating environment.[13] Its Internship Program offers students from a variety of disciplines hands-on museum experience.[14] Each summer the museum hosts art classes for local students. Chinati has been producing an annual newsletter in English and Spanish since 1995 (some of the back issues are available at the Chinati bookstore and all can be downloaded at foundation's website.[15]

Visiting

The Chinati Foundation has reopened, after being closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[16]

The closest airports to Marfa are in El Paso and Midland/Odessa. It is about a three-hour drive from either airport.

Further reading

• Ackerman, James S., and Chinati Foundation. 2000. Art and Architecture. Marfa, Texas: Chinati Foundation. ISBN 9780967318615
• Andre, Carl, and Chinati Foundation. 2000. Art in the Landscape. Marfa, Texas: Chinati Foundation. ISBN 9780967318608
• Bell, Tiffany, Dan Flavin, and Chinati Foundation. 2002. Light in Architecture and Art: The Work of Dan Flavin. Marfa, Texas: Chinati Foundation. ISBN 9780967318622
• Chamberlain, John, and William C. Agee. 2009. It's All in the Fit: The Work of John Chamberlain. Marfa, Texas: Chinati Foundation. ISBN 9781607020707
• Antliff, Allan, and Donald Judd. 2009. The Writings of Donald Judd. Marfa, Texas: Chinati Foundation. ISBN 9781615845392
• Stockebrand, Marianne, Donald Judd, and Rudi Fuchs. 2010. Chinati: the vision of Donald Judd. Marfa, Texas: Chinati Foundation. ISBN 9780300169393
• Stockebrand, Marianne. 2020. Chinati: the vision of Donald Judd. Marfa, Texas: Chinati Foundation. ISBN 9780300251456

Notes and references

External links

• Media related to Chinati Foundation at Wikimedia Commons
• The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati
• The Judd Foundation
• The Dia Art Foundation

На других языках

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[de] Chinati Foundation

Die Chinati Foundation ist ein Künstlermuseum in Marfa, Texas, das vornehmlich dem Werk seines Gründers, des nordamerikanischen Minimalisten Donald Judd, gewidmet ist. Gegründet hat Judd diese 1987 mit Hilfe der New Yorker Dia Art Foundation als eine private Stiftung auf dem heute öffentlich zugänglichen Gelände eines ehemaligen Militärforts. Sie umfasst ein Areal von 140 Hektar mit mehr als 30 Baracken der früheren Munitionsdepots und Flugzeughangars.

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- [en] Chinati Foundation

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[fr] Chinati Foundation

La Fondation Chinati (Chinati Foundation/Fundación Chinati) est un musée d'art contemporain situé à Marfa, au Texas, établi sur les idées de son fondateur, l'artiste Donald Judd.

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[it] Fondazione Chinati

La Fondazione Chinati (Chinati Foundation) è un'istituzione, ospitata preso l'omonima struttura museale d'arte contemporanea, situata a Marfa, in Texas, e concepita sulla base delle idee del suo fondatore, l'artista Donald Judd.[1]

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