{"id":94,"name":"","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"john-baldessari","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.baldessari.org/","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1931-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00","place_of_birth":"","country_of_birth":"","place_of_residence":"","country_of_residence":"","cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"concept","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"John","lastname":"Baldessari","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"John Baldessari","date_of_death":"2020-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","cached_name_asc":"Baldessari, John","stream_count_app":17,"gender":"male","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/005/840/large/2577-02.jpg?1326799765","poster_credits":"(c)image: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York","media_count":1,"items_count":2,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e[John Baldessari](http://www.baldessari.org/) (1931, US, lives in Los Angeles) seeks to reconcile his city\u0026rsquo;s surf-and-sex aesthetic with New York conceptualism. Joseph Kossuth famously dismisses his work as \u0026lsquo;\u0026ldquo;conceptual\u0026rdquo; cartoons of actual conceptual art\u0026rsquo;, and he answeres with the now-classic video John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt. Baldessari typically tries out ideas in various permutations and makes them reappear at various stages in his oeuvre. He has invested much energy into visualising the somehow self-evident but still inexplicable, almost mysterious mechanisms behind the Duchampian notion of \u0026lsquo;choosing\u0026rsquo;: \u0026lsquo;I love the idea of doing just gratuitous things, in a world of things for use.\u0026rsquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e[John Baldessari](http://www.baldessari.org/) (\u0026deg;1931, VS, leeft in Los Angeles) probeert de surf-en-seks-esthetiek van zijn stad te verzoenen met het New Yorkse conceptualisme. In een fameuze boutade wuift Joseph Kosuth zijn werk weg als \u0026lsquo;\u0026ldquo;conceptuele\u0026rdquo; cartoons van echte conceptuele kunst\u0026rsquo;, waarop Baldessari antwoordt met de inmiddels klassieke video \u0026#39;John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt\u0026#39;. Meestal probeert Baldessari idee\u0026euml;n uit in verschillende herschikkingen, waarbij hij ze opnieuw doet verschijnen in verschillende stadia in zijn oeuvre. Hij steekt veel energie in het visualiseren van de \u0026ndash; ergens vanzelfsprekende, maar tegelijk onverklaarbare, bijna mysterieuze \u0026ndash; mechanismen achter de duchampiaanse notie van \u0026lsquo;kiezen\u0026rsquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e[John Baldessari](http://www.baldessari.org/) (\u0026deg;1931, \u0026Eacute;tats-Unis, vit \u0026agrave; Los Angeles) cherche \u0026agrave; r\u0026eacute;concilier l\u0026rsquo;esth\u0026eacute;tique \u0026laquo; surf et sexe \u0026raquo; de sa ville avec le conceptualisme new-yorkais. Quand Joseph Kosuth d\u0026eacute;nigre son oeuvre avec la fameuse boutade \u0026laquo; de la bande dessin\u0026eacute;e \u0026ldquo;conceptuelle\u0026rdquo; sur le v\u0026eacute;ritable art conceptuel \u0026raquo;, il lui r\u0026eacute;pond en r\u0026eacute;alisant la vid\u0026eacute;o entre-temps classique : John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt. Baldessari explore diverses id\u0026eacute;es dans des permutations diff\u0026eacute;rentes et les fait r\u0026eacute;appara\u0026icirc;tre \u0026agrave; des \u0026eacute;tapes successives de son oeuvre. Il investit beaucoup d\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;nergie dans la visualisation des m\u0026eacute;canismes certes \u0026eacute;vidents, n\u0026eacute;anmoins inexplicables et quasi myst\u0026eacute;rieux que rec\u0026egrave;le la notion duchampienne de \u0026laquo; choisir \u0026raquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"US","place":"National City","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}},{"country":"CN","place":"Hong Kong","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":null,"fr":null}}]}