John Baldessari : The space between / [texts, Russell Ferguson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, David Salle ; text redaction, Barbara Bloom].

The Space Between celebrates John Baldessari's final painting series, thirty paintings on canvas that explore the gaps in meaning between word and image, foreground and background, photography and painting, and presence and absence. Quintessentially Baldessarian in their witty, sometimes absurd pairings of objects and text, they feature imagery from film stills and found photographs, partially covered by gestural fields of white and black paint that direct our attention to particular elements in each scene, while obscuring others. Certain themes reveal themselves across the series, including body parts, gestures, and tools. Simultaneousl...

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