John Baldessari

Los Angeles

John Baldessari’s current exhibition is a welcome greeting to Sprüth Magers gallery in Los Angeles. It opened the new space. Working together for the milestone of taking root in Los Angeles, is a strong proof of the artists and the gallery’s solid collaboration.

Suppose it is true after all? WHAT THEN? is the hand-painted phrase that his Baldessari’s text paintings series started with in 1966. Fifty years later, the artist is as humorous and playful. The exhibition blends photographic material with sentences in a distinctive Baldessari collage way. MAYBE THAT IS THE SIMPLEST WAY TO EXPLAIN IT. comes with a photo collage of intertwined feminine legs and arms while BEN’S JACKET DRAPES PERFECTLY OVER HIS SHOULDERS underlines a woman lying on a deck chair watching a pop painted horizon. Each of Baldessari’s association are interconnected to give way to a narrative space going beyond the picture.

John Baldessari, Maybe That is The Simplest Way…, 2015, Varnished inkjet print on canvas with acrylic paint, 137,5 x 182,6 x 4,1 cm, 54 1/8 x 71 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches, Copyright John Baldessari, Courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery and Sprüth Magers Photography: Joshua White, 2015

John Baldessari, It’s Possible, Although…, 2015, Varnished inkjet print on canvas with acrylic paint, 138,1 x 176,8 x 4,1 cm, 54 3/8 x 69 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches, Copyright John Baldessari, Courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery and Sprüth Magers Photography: Joshua White, 2015

Sprüth Magers

5900 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA

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