John Baldessari

John Baldessari ( born June 17, 1931 in National City, California) is an American artist and a major representative of the current conceptual and media art.

Life

At the beginning of his career was the painting, but it burned in 1970 in the sensational " Cremation Project" all of its incurred 1953-1966 paintings and devoted himself from that point on working with images and languages ​​and the different types ( AC - ) relations between these two forms of expression.

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

John Baldessari lives and works in Santa Monica, California. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Film

  • Jan Schmidt- Garre: This is not that - The artist John Baldessari, documentation, Arthaus Musik 2009 (2006), ISBN 978-3-939873-37-2

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
  • Catalog: documenta 7 in Kassel; Vol 1: ( Visual biographies of artists ); Vol 2: ( Current work of the artist); 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 does not look like art. Interview with Fabian engravers International Forum Vol 220 (2013), pp. 152-163
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