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John BaldessariRarely seen limited edition Spanish/English protest poster, Signed by Baldessari1984
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John Baldessari
Flowers of Life for Central America/Flores de Vida por Centro America (Hand Signed), 1984
Rare Offset Lithograph (Hand signed by Baldessari)
24 3/5 × 18 inches
Boldly signed in white sharpie by Baldessari lower front
The regular, unsigned edition was only approx. 100, though the present work was, exceptionally, uniquely hand signed by the artist
Extremely rare vintage political poster - even more so when hand signed by Baldessari, with such impressive provenance - and less common than many of his limited edition signed prints! This poster was designed by John Baldessari and Norm Gollin for Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America. This poster has excellent provenance as it was de-accessioned from the Center for Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, California. Below is the detailed cataloguing the Center provided for the artists involved in this coalition, and the art galleries sponsoring the cause:
Artists Call is a national coalition of visual, literary, and performing artists who have concern for the life, culture, and traditions of Central American and Caribbean peoples. Artists Call is opposed to the ways in which these are threatened by foreign intervention. As North Americans we recognize our responsibility to speak out against injustice and the threat of regional war, promoted by our administration, and its domestic consequences. All events planned for October 1984 are an expression of these concerns. Los Angeles artists call Against U.S. Intervention In Central America:
This is an interesting piece of political and art historical ephemera from LA in the the mid 1980s -and highly collectible when hand signed by Baldessari.
John Baldessari Biography:
John Baldessari was born in National City, California in 1931, and has lived in Santa Monica since 1970. He received a B.A. from San Diego State College in 1953, and an M.A. in 1957, and studied at the U.C., Berkeley (1954-55); UCLA (1955); the Otis Art Institute (1957-59); and Chouinard Art Institute. In October 2004 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also been the recipient of many awards including an Honorary Ph.D., San Diego State University, San Diego, California (June 2003); the Spectrum International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (1999); the College Art Association Award (1999); the Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, California (1997); and the Oscar Kokoschka Prize, Austria (1996).
A two-part retrospective of his work opened at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria in March 2005 and traveled to the Museé d'Art Contemporain, Nimes. His solo exhibition Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (with Orange) at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin opened on 28 October and ran through January 16, 2005. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (2001), the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, and the Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden (1999); the Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Trento, Italy (2000-01); and at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and the Witte de With, Rotterdam (1998). In 1996, National City was shown at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1995-96 a retrospective, This Not That, was shown at Cornerhouse, Manchester, England and traveled to London, Stuttgart, Ljubljana, Oslo, and Lisbon. In 1994, The Museum of Modern Art presented Artist's Choice: John Baldessari, and in 1990-92 a retrospective survey of his work was shown at MOCA, Los Angeles, which traveled to San Francisco MOMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum, and the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal. In 1981, John Baldessari: Work 1966-1980 was shown at the New Museum, New York, and traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, the CAM, Houston, the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. John Baldessari's work has been included in the 47th Venice Biennial (1997); the Carnegie International (1985-86); the Whitney Biennial (1983); and Documenta 7 and 5, Kassel (1982 and 1972).
-Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery
- Creator:John Baldessari (1931, American)
- Creation Year:1984
- Dimensions:Height: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
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- Condition:Very good vintage condition with no apparent issues; unframed.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213567642
John Baldessari
Although Conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.
Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.
In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”
From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.
The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of Conceptual art.
Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.
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