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EXHIBITION: JOHN BALDESSARI AT MARIAN GOODMAN

“Early Work” at Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris comprises examples from most of Baldessari’s major series.
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BIRD #1, 1962

Bird #1, 1962, the earliest work in the exhibition, presents an image of a bird falling through the picture plane. Again, an early example of Baldessari’s use of cropping for dramatic effect, the bird has been cut in such a cinematic way as to suggest its falling through the air. Bird #1 belongs to a small group of paintings that escaped destruction, when on July 24 1970 Baldessari decided to ceremoniously cremate 125 works, including many oil paintings, made between 1953 and 1966.

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THE ARTIST HITTING VARIOUS OBJECTS WITH A GOLF CLUB, 1972-73 30 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS

 

Following Baldessari’s seminal statement “I will not make any more boring Art”, he conceived the work The Artist Hitting Various Objects with a Golf Club, 1972-73, composed of 30 photographs of the artist swinging and hitting with a golf club objects excavated from a dump, as a parody of cataloging rather than a thorough straight classification.

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SPACE, 1966-68 (172.7 X 144.8 CM)

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PORTRAIT: VARIOUS IDENTITIES HIDDEN WITH NAME / DATE CARDS (4 MR. 74), 1974 6 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS (35.24 X 27.94 CM)

Portrait: Various Identities Hidden With Name/Date Cards, 1974 echoes the work Portrait: Artist’s Identity Hidden with Various Hats, 1974, a work in the collection of LACMA, Los Angeles, which illustrates the recurrence of portraits with faces obscured by domestic objects or spots of varying colours. For Baldessari faces dominate our interaction and communication and “If art is a mystery, then the face is a betrayer and should be hidden”.

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GOYA SERIES: THIS, THAT, OR THE OTHER, 1997 INKJET PRINT, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

Art historical references appear throughout John Baldessari’s practice, as evidenced by the work in the exhibition from the Goya Series; Goya Series: THIS, THAT, OR THE OTHER, 1997 in which we see black and white images of everyday objects; a paper clip, bouquet of flowers, and apple, juxtaposed with titles taken from The Disasters of War the 82 prints created between 1810 – 1820 by Francisco Goya.

 

John Baldessari was born in 1931 in National City, California; he lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

Until April 11th at Marian Goodman Gallery.

(text from Marian Goodman Gallery)

WEEKLY WRAP UP | OCT. 3-10, 2014

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This week on the blog we discovered the designers Antoine Philippon and Jacqueline Lecoq; saw the first exhibition at Del Vaz Projects; listened Dayvan Cowboy from Boards of Canada; visited the new show of Mark Leckey at Wiels: Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials and the show of Jonathan Binet and Martin Laborde at Gaudel de Stampa: Yellow Cabin Saturday Night Remittent Fever.

 

JONATHAN BINET & MARTIN LABORDE AT GAUDEL DE STAMPA

Yellow Cabin Saturday Night Remittent Fever

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Re: Yellow Cabin Saturday Night Remittent Fever

Martin, Jonathan,

Thanks, I’m glad you like the poem but it doesn’t exist.
Unless it only consists in its title. I mean its name. Cause it didn’t get much further in my hands than a fucking name.

According to Wikipedia, it should refer to an equivocal yet acute disease:
variable fevers affecting primates, something to do with complexion, and confinement too,
and with Tony, in the movie, when he dances at 2001 Odyssey, in Bay Ridge, after his shift at the hardware store.

Its temperature fluctuates in the shape of tiny crenels, a bit above normal.

This poem doesn’t exist but it’s available.

Hope to catch up this winter,

Charles Veyron

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at Gaudel de Stampa
3, rue de Vaucouleurs 75011 Paris
September 19 – October 25
by appointment

WEEKLY WRAP UP | SEPT. 29 – OCT.3, 2014

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Dries Van Noten final show, 2014

This week on the blog we visited Bex & Arts, a Contemporary Sculpture Triennal in Switzerland; saw Bertrand Bonello at Centre Pompidou; passed by Peter Lindbergh at Gagosian Paris and Yoko Uhoda Gallery in Liège to see a show curated by Christophe Daviet-Thery; and finally ended with Neïl Beloufa at ICA in London.