Son[i]a #97
“John Baldessari. Pure Beauty” is the biggest retrospective mounted in Spain of the work of John Baldessari (1931), one of the most notable and influential American artists.
It contains over 130 works, some of them little known, and reviews the main concerns of this legendary artist who lives and works in Santa Monica (California) and has recently been awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (2009). With humour and irony, his work dissects the ideas behind artistic practice and questions the accepted
historical rules for making art.
Communication and ambiguity in the work of John Baldessari
John Baldessari reviews some key aspects of his approach to art. A look at his relationship to film, language and linguistics, and how the development of photographic reproduction techniques has affected his work.
Bartomeu Marí talks about the MACBA exhibitions for the 2009-2010 season.