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John Baldessari
Helmsmen (With Various Fires) 1989-1990 Sugar lift, spit bit, aquatint and pho
1989-1990

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John Baldessari (June 17, 1931 - January 2, 2020, American) Helmsmen (With Various Fires) 1989-1990 Sugar lift, spit bit, aquatint and photogravure in colors on three sheets of Somerset 410 gsm paper Sheet 1 - 17 1/2 x 20 1/8 in. Sheet 2 - 16 5/8 x 20 in. Sheet 3 - 63 7/8 x 29 7/8 in. Overall - 98 x 45 in. when hung according to artist's specs Artist's Proof (A.P) Pencil signed and numbered This is the complete set of three photogravures with aquatint in colors, on Somerset paper, 1989-1990, signed in pencil, numbered 'AP' initialed and numbered on the reverse in pencil (an artist's proof set, the edition was 45), published by Brooke Alexander, New York, each with full margins. Overall: 98 x 55 in. (2490 x 1400 mm.) A pioneering force in Conceptual art, John Baldessari transformed pop cultural and art historical iconography into meditations on image, language, appropriation, and authenticity. He worked in a variety of media including sculpture, printmaking, photography, painting, film, performance, installation, and books. Text frequently appears throughout Baldessari’s oeuvre. The artist often concealed faces in found photographs with colored dots, a strategy that forces his viewer to look at the images’ contexts, rather than at the particularities of the subjects. Baldessari exhibited widely within his lifetime, showing in cities including New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Zürich, and Berlin. His work belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum, among others. High auction record US$4.4m, Christie's, 2007 Blue-chip Represented by internationally recognized galleries. Collected by a major museum Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Centre PompidouTateSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumWhitney Museum of American ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Castello di RivoliLouisiana Museum of ArtHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Hammer MuseumMuseo Reina SofiaArt Institute of ChicagoMCA ChicagoModerna Museet, Stockholm Recent Solo shows include 2024 John Baldessari, MLTPL 2023 JOHN BALDESSARI: (FOOD), Mai 36 Galerie 2022 John Baldessari, The Story Underneath, Sprüth Magers 2021 John Baldessari: Selected Works, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl 2020 JOHN BALDESSARI: 30 Years at Gemini G.E.L., Gemini G.E.L. Wrong is Right: Remembering John Baldessari, Mixografia 2019 Selections - Best of John Baldessari, Gemini G.E.L. John Baldessari: Prints, Brooke Alexander, Inc. 2018 John Baldessari: Emoji Series, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl John Baldessari Emoji Series, Gemini G.E.L. BLAH, Mixografia 2017 John Baldessari, Galerie Greta Meert Safety Curtain 2017/2018 by John Baldessari, museum in progress John Baldessari: Hands & Feet, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl John Baldessari: Hands & Feet, Gemini G.E.L. John Baldessari: Eight Colorful Inside Jobs, Mixografia 2016 John Baldessari: Madame Cezanne's Hairdos, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl Madame Cézanne's Hairdos, Gemini G.E.L. JOHN BALDESSARI – NEW WORKS, Mai 36 Galerie L'image volée, Fondazione Prada

Creator:
John Baldessari (1931, American)
Creation Year:
1989-1990
Dimensions:
Height: 98 in (248.92 cm)Width: 45 in (114.3 cm)
Medium:
Mixed Media,Aquatint,Photogravure
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Miami, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU538314358412
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John Baldessari

Although Conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.

Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.

In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”

From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.

The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of Conceptual art.

Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.

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