John Baldessari's most extensive retrospective and the only West Coast exhibit is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Featured are over 150 works covering five decades, including his early conceptual text and image paintings of the 1960’s, his 1970 Cremation Project marking Baldessari's public renunciation of painting, as well as his photographic and video recording art forms.
Considered one of the most influential artists of his generation, Baldessari restructured conventional notions of narrative while exploring the relationship between imagery and language, as well as the social and cultural aspects of mass media.
Baldessari’s artwork challenges, at times with irony and humor, the process of perception, meaning and interpretation of our surroundings.
The exhibit runs through Sept 12, 2010, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036. For more information call (323) 857-6000or visitwww.lacma.org
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