John Baldessari in "Systems" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring John Baldessari, from the "Systems" episode in Season 5 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Systems" premiered in October 2009 on PBS.
Throughout a segment that features over fifty pieces, including works in the inaugural exhibition of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, John Baldessari assails conventional wisdom about art and meaning. In an installation at Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany, Baldessari humorously reconfigures an entire brick building by noted architect Mies van der Rohe. “Aesthetically, I always look for the weak link in the chain,” he says.
John Baldessari was born in National City, California, in 1931. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/john-baldessari
CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Consulting Director: Charles Atlas. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Director of Photography: Robert Elfstrom, Ian Serfontein, Joel Shapiro, Martial Barrault, Richard Kane, & Richard Numeroff. Additional Photography: Sam Henriques & Bryan Hithe. Sound: Tom Bergin, Ray Day, Roger Phenix, Paul Stadden, & Merce Williams. Assistant Camera: Clair Popkin, Michael Pruitt-Bruun, Jean-Pierre Vial, Kenny Weinberg, & James Weinheimer. Field Producer: Mariana Valdrighi Amaral. On Screen Interviews: Sarah Rentz, Harmony Murphy, Erika Fortner, Damien Young, Jessica Rankin, Brienne Arrington, Analia Saban, Larry Little, & Horace Varnum.
Major underwriting for Season 5 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Agnes Gund, Bloomberg, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Broad Art Foundation, Korea Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
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[@z.833]

My favorite "conceptual" artists of all time. We don't need suffering. Humor is better. That's why I like LA artists.

[@teresaberlinck213]

Seria ótimo se as legendas da tradução automática estivessem habilitadas, obrigada!

[@vandolmatzis8146]

I like the humour,reminds me of duchamp.

[@antonianatale]

Subtitles please

[@ueckbueck]

2:55 Everytime I hear about the complicated religious identity of Americans, it intrigues me. The diversity of the country is a blessing. 3:27 😂

[@incognito3620]

John- Art doesn’t necessarily heal external wounds. It has the possibility to heal internal maladies. Spiritual , emotional , mental, contextual, or existential.issues. It has the power to inform, illustrate, illuminate. The need of art has many elements but the overriding element is it needs a connection or communication to human emotions and feelings.

[@theviewer5104]

He is dead. And probably know all this already....

[@comontoshi]

When an “artist” becomes a fixture in the “artistic” discourse anything they do do becomes “art” if they say it is . . . . personally I never thought of Baldessari as much of an “artist”. 😑

[@z.833]

Who's your favorite artist?

[@comontoshi]

@@z.833 artist(s)/painters: Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Kurt Schwitters, Man Ray, the list goes on and changes daily. 😎

[@incognito3620]

John because you say it is …..does not make it Art. You would serve the argumentment by describing what art…is not.

[@MelodyInTheChaos]

Nah art is anything and everything and nothing all at the same time. If someone calls it art then it is art. You don't have to agree or like it.

[@theviewer5104]

He is dead. Too late and thank god he doesn't have to read this

[@jynxyouowemeasoda5066]

Eh

[@incognito3620]

Get rid of the elitist , esoteric obfuscating speech. Does your work connect to human experience? Does it inform, Illustrate, teach us something about anything? I, for one don’t think much of it. And don’t give me the importance of “ the space between” and words matter. Communication. Remember. ?

[@MelodyInTheChaos]

It doesn't have to do any of those things to be art.

[@dannyomo]

I didn't find any of his speech to be esoteric or elitist (though, presumably, that makes me esoteric and elitist). I connected to many of the things he was explaining his work was about-how art is about choices (color, placement, absence), about the replaceability of the people in manufactured photo ops-though maybe I'm partial to some artists that seek to deconstruct what we pretend to "know" is art.