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Image: Yuji Agematsu, Zip: 01-01-2024 – 12-31-2024. Detail, mixed media in cigarette pack cellophane wrapper, 366 wrappers, each approx: 2 1/4 x 2 1/8 x 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

Time and Location

May 10 – August 30
Judd Foundation (New York, NY)

About

Judd Foundation presents 2023-2024, an exhibition of work by Yuji Agematsu.

Three hundred and sixty-six of zips —tiny devotional sculptures Agematsu fashions from detritus that he comes across in New York’s streets and then gardens lightly inside the cellophane sleeve of a cigarette pack— are displayed on shelves, memorializing daily walks taken in succession over the year 2024: one for each day. Since 1996, Agematsu has made one zip for each day, twenty-eight years of walking and arranging. To this day, he still cannot resist the clarity of the world in the cellophane, all those days, all those walks, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end.

This exhibit will take place on 101 Spring Street in New York, the former living and working space of Donald Judd, where Agematsu worked for more than two decades as a building manager.

About Yuji Agematsu

Yuji Agematsu was born in 1956, in Kanagawa, Japan, and has lived in New York since 1980. Agematsu studied with Tokio Hasegawa, a member of the band Taj Mahal Travellers, and the jazz drummer and choreographer Milford Graves. Recently Agematsu has had solo exhibitions at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2023); The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (2022); and Secession, Vienna (2021).

Recent group exhibitions include Le Contre-Ciel at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2023); and Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York (2021–22).

His most recent performance was Chasing Milford at Artists Space, New York, as part of Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency (2022). His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Loewe Foundation, Madrid; Pinault Collection, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

For more information: Yuji Agematsu at Judd Foundation

This event is supported through the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.