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John Baldessari (US, 1931 - 2020)
Double Vision: DUCHAMP, 2011. COURTESY OF MAI 36 GALERIE, ZURICH AND MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK / PARIS.
Produced in 2011 and 2012, the works were created in four interconnected parts—Double Vision, Double Feature, Double Bill (Part 1 and 2)and Double Play.
Using art history textbooks as his source, Baldessari has selected masterpieces from the 18th to the 20th centuries by artists including Chardin, de Chirico, Courbet, David, Duchamp, Gaugin, Hockney, Magritte, Malevich, Manet, Matisse and Warhol. In each instance, he selects a fragment, completes it as an image, then ‘doubles’ or pairs it with a text that appears as a title. Works in Double Vision pair one artist’s name with a visual fragment from another well-known artist; Double Feature combines an outtake of an Old Master painting with a title from film noir; Double Bill juxtaposes images culled from two works, with one of the artists named below and the other not; and Double Play couples an image with a title from a song.
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