©image: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
1931 - 2020
Born in National City (US), born in Hong Kong (CN).
[John Baldessari](http://www.baldessari.org/) (1931, US, lives in Los Angeles) seeks to reconcile his city’s surf-and-sex aesthetic with New York conceptualism. Joseph Kossuth famously dismisses his work as ‘“conceptual” cartoons of actual conceptual art’, and he answeres with the now-classic video John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt. Baldessari typically tries out ideas in various permutations and makes them reappear at various stages in his oeuvre. He has invested much energy into visualising the somehow self-evident but still inexplicable, almost mysterious mechanisms behind the Duchampian notion of ‘choosing’: ‘I love the idea of doing just gratuitous things, in a world of things for use.’
>John Baldessari, Baldessari Sings LeWitt, 1972.Video, 00:15:00.
>John Baldessari, Throwing 3 Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of 36 attempts), 1973.Print, ink, paper, 14 x ( 22.8 x 33 cm).
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Museum of Affects — In the Framework of L'Internationale. 26 November 2011 - 29 January 2012.
> Exhibition: The collection XXIX — Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956-1986. 20 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
> Ensemble: Het Essentiële [The Essential].
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.