One of the greatest artistic minds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Baldessari made an indelible mark on contemporary art worldwide through his innovative approach to various art mediums, his boundary-pushing, transcendent wit and his mentorship to countless artists and friends over the course of his storied career. His final body of work makes visible the charged zones between word and image, foreground and background, presence and absence, and symbol and meaning, giving each canvas a poetic ambiguity.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, co-published by Sprüth Magers and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, with contributions from Barbara Bloom, Russell Ferguson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Catherine Opie and David Salle. Sprüth Magers also recently announced the gallery’s global representation of the Estate of John Baldessari. Click here for more information.
Recordings of conversations around The Space Between by artists and writers close to John Baldessari, including Stephen Prina and Mungo Thomson, are available here.