John Baldessari

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

NOW CLOSED

Raised Eyebrows/Furrowed Foreheads (Part One): (Blue Eyebrows) (2008), John Baldessari. Courtesy the Estate of John Baldessari/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; © John Baldessari

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This is the first Swedish survey of work by John Baldessari, who died earlier this year. It explores how the American artist abandoned painting in the 1960s, instead making use of photographs and text cribbed from popular and academic sources to create provocative and irreverent works. Find out more from the Moderna Museet’s website.

Preview the exhibition below | View Apollo’s Art Diary here

I Am Making Art (1971), John Baldessari. Courtesy the Estate of John Baldessari/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix); © John Baldessari

Commissioned Painting: A Painting by William Bowne (1969), John Baldessari. Courtesy the Estate of John Baldessari/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; © John Baldessari

Palm Tree/Seascape (2010), John Baldessari. Courtesy the Estate of John Baldessari/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; © John Baldessari

A Two-Dimensional Surface without Any Articulation Is a Dead Experience (1966–67), John Baldessari. Courtesy the Estate of John Baldessari/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; © John Baldessari

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