30. October 2004 - 16. January 2005
Influenced by Marcel Duchamp the American artist John Baldessari rose to prominence in the late 1960s, combining Pop Arts’s use imagery from the mass-media with Conceptual art’s use of language to create a unique body of work that has become a hallmark of post-modern art. Early in his career, Baldessari began incorporating images and text utilized by the advertising and movie industries into his photo-based art. He appropriated pictures and movie stills, juxtaposing, editing, and cropping them in conjunction with written texts. The resulting montage of photography and language often counters the narrative associations suggested by the isolated scenes and offers a greater plurality of meanings. The layered, often humorous compositions carry disparate connotations, underscoring how relative meaning can be.
For this commission, Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange), Baldessari has created thirteen large-scale works of unprecedented visual impact. Using stills from numerous sources, Baldessari paints over crucial information in the images, essentially withholding information. Orange – a color between yellow and red – is dominant in this project. Baldessari revels in juxtapositions: his imagery conveys harmony and discord, security and disruption – and he focuses on the voids left between these extremes, the uncomfortable existence of “betweeness.”
Curator
Tracey Bashkoff
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Location
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin
Opening hours
Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays to 10 p.m.
Including MuseumsShop and KAFFEEBANK
Catalogue and Edition
The exhibition will accompany a publication in German and English.
€ 28
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Admission
| Adults | | € 3 |
| reduced | | € 2 |
| Children under 12 | | Admission free |
| School classes | | Admission free |
| School classes with guided tours | | € 25 |
| Groups up to 20 | | € 25 |
| Family Card | | € 8 |
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| Mondays | | Admission free |
Guided tours
Free Guided tours: Daily at 6 p.m.
Lunch Lectures: Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (Guided tours on selected themes followed by a small lunch)
Keynote Tours: Sundays at 11.30 a.m. (Guided tours on special themes followed by brunch)
Special guided tours, tours in foreign languages, and tours for schoolchildren are available. Please call (030) 20 20 93-14
Deutsche Guggenheim Club
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art shop
700 articles ranging from catalogues to toys and art books for children; innovative design from Berlin and articles from the Guggenheim Museum stores in Bilbao, New York and Venice.
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Café
KAFFEEBANK
Drinks, brunch/snacks: varying menu
Public transport to the exhibition
Subway Stadtmitte (U2) or Französische Straße (U6)
S-Bahn Unter den Linden (S1, S2) or Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75)
Bus No.100, 200, 348
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