Donald Judd / Una stanza per Panza by Donald Judd. Part IV

“In his 1990 essay “Una stanza per Panza,” Donald Judd recounts his dealings with the Italian art collector Giuseppe Panza, detailing Panza’s fabrication of his work without his permission and in some instances, without his knowledge. This essay was the result of a two-decade long relationship that turned acrimonious in the early 1980s after repeated attempts by Judd to correct wrong and unsupervised fabrications and to prevent further forgeries of his work by Panza.

As Judd recollected in “Una stanza,” “I wrote Panza” making clear that “Work made without my supervision is not my work. You cannot continue to do so.” In the essay Judd describes his multiple meetings with Panza; he recalls conversations with leading museum directors; and he quotes heavily from Panza’s own public statements in catalogues and magazines. This documentation, what Judd referred to as his “Panzata,” is included in the Museum, Gallery, and Collector files of the Donald Judd Papers part of
the Judd Foundation Archives. These records document Judd’s extensive exhibition history and his relationships with curators and collectors.

“Una stanza per Panza,” Judd’s longest essay at more than 25,000 words, was first published in 1990 in four parts in German and as an English language supplement by Kunst Intern of Bonn, Germany.” juddfoundation.org