John Baldessari
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
- 1996: Oskar Kokoschka Prize
- 1999: Spectrum - International Prize for Photography from the Lower Saxony Foundation
- 2004: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2009: Golden Lion of the Venice Art Biennale for his life's work
- 2012: Goslarer Kaiserring
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1972: Documenta 5 Kassel in the departments Individual Mythologies : Video and Idea + Idea / Light .
- 1982: Documenta 7 Kassel.
- 2005: Life's Balance. (1984–2004), Kunsthaus Graz .
- 2007: Music, Kunstmuseum Bonn .
- 2007: Eden: Adam and Eve (with Ear and Nose) plus Serpent, Portikus , Frankfurt am Main
- 2008: cavalier start. 1978-1980. Departure into the art of the 80s. Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen, (group exhibition).
- 2009: Pure Beauty, Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London.
- 2009: BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W / XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT (brick building, large windows with excellent views, partly furnished, well-known architect), Museum Haus Lange , Krefeld
- 2010: On a beautiful morning in May ..., Society for Current Art , Bremen, (group exhibition).
- 2010/11: Pure Beauty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York.
- 2011: John Baldessari. Your Vision in Lights, Temporary Stedelijk, Amsterdam
- 2011: John Baldessari. Double Vision, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
- 2017/18: Iron Curtain. Graduation, museum in progress , Vienna State Opera , Vienna
Movie
- Jan Schmidt-Garre : This is not that - The artist John Baldessari , Documentation, Arthaus Musik GmbH 2009 (2006), ISBN 978-3-939873-37-2 .
Public collections
- Migros Museum for Contemporary Art
- Video forum , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
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
- Literature by and about John Baldessari in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about John Baldessari in the documenta archive
- Baldessari.org (engl.)
- John Baldessari on kunstaspekte.de
- John Baldessari: “I Am Making Art” , 1971 (Video)
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ^ Exhibition John Baldessari. Eden: Adam and Eve (with ear and nose) plus serpent. Website Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Exhibition page “Iron Curtain. Graduation “ , museum in progress
personal data | |
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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 |