Director's Talk - Pure Beauty at Tate Modern
4 December 2009 18:30 — 20:00
Tate Modern 53 Bankside, Southwark, London SE1 9TG
Join Contemporary Art Society Director, Paul Hobson for a tour of John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at Tate Modern.
Making his name as a pioneer of conceptual art in the 1960s, John Baldessari shocked the art world when he announced in a newspaper that he was destroying all the artworks he had produced between 1953 and 1966. He then turned his attention to photographic works, searching bins for discarded material from which he created his famous photocompositions.
Baldessari’s interest in language, both written and visual, has been at the forefront of both his practice and his teaching as an artist and his influential role teaching at the Californian Institute of Arts (CAL arts).
To RSVP please email membership@contemporaryartsociety.org
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John Baldessari God nose 1965
John Baldessari Two Figures (red) and Two Figures (green) in Different Environments (Food) 1990
John Baldessari Bloody Sundae 1987
John Baldessari The Duress Series: Person Climbing Exterior Wall of Tall Building/Person on Ledge of Tall Building/ Person on Girders of Unfinished Tall Building 2003
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