Lot 124: The Seventh Wave - Marfa, 2007

The Seventh Wave - Marfa, 2007
Digital colour coupler diptych, each Diasec mounted. Each 100 x 100 cm. (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in); 100 x 200 cm. (39 3/8 x 78 3/4 in) overall.  One signed in ink, printed title, date and number 3/3 on a label affixed to the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

 Galerie Anhava, Marko Vuokala: The Seventh Wave, 2008, pp. 20-21

 Acquired directly from the artist

These particular semi-deserts are from Marfa, Texas. Anyone with some knowledge of modern art knows that Marfa was the half-abandoned town in the desert where Donald Judd finally found a proper playground for his minimalist art of ever-increasing scale. Marfa is today a huge monument to Judd, attracting tourists and artists from all over the world to this place in the middle of nowhere, close to the Mexican border. Judd was considered a minimalist; his art, though, was never minimal. Not in aspiration, nor scale, and certainly not in its demands for space. Marko Vuokola is for sure minimal, but not a minimalist.
Pontus Kyander, ‘Shift. Marko Vuokola’, Galerie Anhava, Marko Vuokola: The Seventh Wave, 2008, pp. 14-16