Spaces Between (One Risky)
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
About the work
John Baldessari works in painting, sculpture, film, photography, and installation. Not a photographer himself, Baldessari uses found images—such as these two film stills from Hollywood movies—to demonstrate his fascination with mass media and its influence on everyday life. Here Baldessari combined two movie scenes, removing portions of the actors’ faces or, in one case, an entire head. By stripping the facial expressions from these moments, the artist undercut their narrative possibilities: the viewer is left to fill in the full story and to question the means by which stories are told in cinema generally.
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1992.738
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
