Very sad to hear that* John Baldessari* (1931-2020) sadly left us early this year. As a homage to his work and wisdom, we dig up his voice and his words from our conversation in 2010.
Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/uncertainty-principle-communication-and-ambiguity-work-john-baldessari John Baldessari <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/uncertainty-principle-communication-and-ambiguity-work-john-baldessari>'s work as an artist, and also as a theoretician and educator, fits in perfectly with the analogy made by Neils Bohr, Nobel Laureate in Physics, when he said that "when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections." And it is precisely this veil of uncertainty over Baldessari’s compositions that transforms the everyday into something singular, into an emergent cognitive experience that avoids single perspectives. RIP.
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