Commissioned work for Deutsche Guggenheim. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp the American artist John Baldessari rose to prominence in the late 1960s, combining Pop Arts’s use imagery from the mass-media with Conceptual art’s use of language to create a unique body of work that has become a hallmark of post-modern art. Early in his career, Baldessari began incorporating images and text utilized by the advertising and movie industries into his photo-based art. He appropriated pictures and movie stills, juxtaposing, editing, and cropping them in conjunction with written texts. The resulting montage of photography and language often counters the narrative associations suggested by the isolated scenes and offers a greater plurality of meanings. The layered, often humorous compositions carry disparate connotations, underscoring how relative meaning can be. Throughout his long and celebrated career, Baldessari has continued to play with and critique popular culture, and over time he has increased the scale and visual impact of his work. Curator: Tracey Bashkoff, Guggenheim Museum, NY Catalogue: The exhibition will accompany a bi-lingual publication.

Exposerende kunstenaar(s) / exhibited artist(s): John Baldessari

Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin Unter den Linden 13-15, D-10117 Berlin, +49-30-2020930, open: ma t/m zo 11.00-20.00, do 11.00-22.00, entree € 4,00 Expositieperiode van 30 oktober t/m 16 januari 2005