John Baldessari

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John Baldessari in Venice, 2009
John Baldessari, 2004

John Anthony Baldessari (born June 17, 1931 in National City , California , † January 2, 2020 in Venice , California) was an American artist and an important representative of contemporary conceptual and media art .

Life

At the beginning of his artistic career there was painting, but in 1970 he burned all of his paintings from 1953 to 1966 in the sensational "Cremation Project". From this point on, Baldessari devoted himself to working with images and languages ​​as well as the interrelationships between these two forms of expression.

Through his pictures, photographic works, video performances, collages, cut-ups and, ultimately, his conceptual art, the artist investigated the mechanisms of media representation. His works have been shown in more than 120 international solo exhibitions and over 300 group exhibitions.

For the 2017/2018 season in the Vienna State Opera , he designed the huge large picture (176 m²) “Graduation” as the 20th work of art for the “Iron Curtain” exhibition series conceived by museum in progress .

John Baldessari has taught at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California, Los Angeles . He died in California in early 2020 at the age of 88.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Movie

Public collections

See also

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .
  • Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); Kassel 1982, ISBN 3-920453-02-6 .
  • Somewhere between almost right and not quite (with orange) , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 978-3775715591 .
  • Miracle Chips: Guaranteed Fresh , Little Steidl, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-677-9 .
  • Parse , JRP Ringier, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3037641170 .
  • John Baldessari / Barbara Bloom: Between Artists , ART Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-923183-47-9 .
  • John Baldessari, I try to make art that doesn't look like art . Interview with Fabian Stech Kunstforum International Vol. 220 (2013), pp. 152–163
  • museum in progress (ed.): Artists Talking: Conceptual Art , DVD, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-96098-245-6 .

Web links

Commons : John Baldessari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl, museum in progress; Dominique Meyer, Wiener Staatsoper (Ed.): CURTAIN - CURTAIN. A living museum space - The Iron Curtain of the Vienna State Opera , Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2017, pp. 16–21.
  2. ^ Exhibition John Baldessari. Eden: Adam and Eve (with ear and nose) plus serpent. Website Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
  3. ↑ John Baldessari BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W / XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT. ( Memento from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Museum Haus Lange
  4. ↑ Exhibition page “Iron Curtain. Graduation “ , museum in progress
personal data
SURNAME Baldessari, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baldessari, John Anthony (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH National City , California
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2020
Place of death Venice , California