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John BaldessariJBCRIAL1VY-98, famed print for ACRIA series, Hand signed, Unique variant, Framed1998
1998
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£4,249.70
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About the Item
John Baldessari
JBCRIAL1VY-98 (Unique Variant, Hand Signed), 1998
Ink jet print on paper. - Unique Variant
Hand signed by John Baldessari on the front
1 of 96 similar works completed
Frame included
This print was created by the artist expressly to benefit AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA), New York, with the unique identifier: JBCRIAL1VY-98. The work is featured in the book, "Unframed: Artists Respond to AIDS", page 65. (see photographs). The label on the back of the frame states that it is "1 of 96 similar works created for CRIA". The monograph (page 62) further explains: "Digital technology also figured prominently into the works submitted by conceptual photographer John Baldessari. Building on a project he had undertaken in Holland, the artist recognized similarities in the shapes of plant pots and lampshades. In order to emphasize the shapes, he digitally re-colored the shades, pots and backgrounds on photos of lamps and potted plants. By restricting his palate to one of six bright colors and eight pot and shade shapes, the artist produced 48 contrasting pairs." Thus, the present work is one of 48 pairs with this shape (96 total pieces) - with each work being unique. Hence it is pencil signed and not numbered by the artist. Please note for reference only is a photo of page 65 from the book, showing two different pairs (i.e. four prints) - but the present listing is for one unique variant - 1 work - shown here in the listing. It is elegantly matted in a window with beveled edges, and framed in a black frame. Ready to hang. An exquisite gem for any Baldessari collector; this work will look beautiful in any living room, hallway, kitchen, child or guest room or even bathroom!
Measurements:
Framed:
12 inches x 10 x 1 inches
Sheet:
10 x 8.5 inches
Literature:
"Unframed: Artists Respond to AIDS", A chronicle of the art sales benefiting the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA), 1993-2002, Foreword by Manuel E. Gonzalez, Chapter Introduction by J.A. Forde, Published by Powerhouse Books, New York,, N.Y. page 62-65.
John Baldessari Biography
John Baldessari was born in 1931, and grew up in National City, California, on the border of the United States and Mexico. He attended San Diego State College, receiving his Master of Arts in Painting. He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley, Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts) and the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1956, he taught a painting class at San Diego State College, and continued teaching concurrently with his art practice for the rest of his career.
By the mid-1960s, Baldessari began to consider art in a radical, conceptual framework, specifically creating work with the intent to destabilize the ideas and beliefs that had come to define art. “An artist is a person who can see connections in unlikely circumstances,” Baldessari said. “A piece starts with a hunch, an intuition with no clear work in mind. I set up structured situations with rules I make for myself, then I try to solve it. In this lies the joy of discovery.” Baldessari thought of this new approach as the beginning of his career, and a rupture from his previous work (mainly painting). In 1970, in an artwork titled Cremation Project, he burned all his art in his possession predating 1966. For the next five decades, until his death in January 2020, Baldessari tested the structure of art, images, and language.
Baldessari was a founder and innovator of conceptual art. He opened up art to new possibilities and forged a wide-reaching legacy. Photographs, text, and color are frequent starting points for his work. These simple devices uncover the visual and ideological mechanics of sight and thought. “I have a way of looking at the world, a perceptual take on it that maybe seems askew to other people,” Baldessari noted. “But I think one of the purposes of art should be to keep us perceptually off balance.”
-Courtesy The Broad Museum
- Creator:John Baldessari (1931, American)
- Creation Year:1998
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745214895632
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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John Baldessari was one of the artists who were invited to contribute an object (or "thing") with text for a special project for "The Thing" publication (read on for more on "The Thing") ; the conceptual object therefore had to incorporate text. Baldessari's contribution in 2014 was a silkscreened pillowcase with text. A limited (unknown) number of these pillowcases were marketed and sold as a set of two in a bespoke box. However, exceptionally, Baldessari hand signed a very few of pillowcases in ink. This is one of the very special sets bearing one hand signed pillow case - purchased directly from "The Thing". (a copy of the 2014 receipt is shown here.) The rest of these boxed sets were not hand signed.
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