Screening of Films & Videos by John Baldessari
Introduction by the artist
Admission $ 7.00 / Students $ 5.00
RSVP: info@eai.org
Please note: Seating is very limited.
Reservations are required.
EAI is pleased to present a special screening of John Baldessari's early film and video works, introduced by the artist. The screening will feature Baldessari's rarely seen films from the 1970s, including Title (1972) and Four Short Films (1972-73), as well as selected early video works.
John Baldessari is one of the most inf... Read more
Screening of Films & Videos by John Baldessari
Introduction by the artist
Admission $ 7.00 / Students $ 5.00
RSVP: info@eai.org
Please note: Seating is very limited.
Reservations are required.
EAI is pleased to present a special screening of John Baldessari’s early film and video works, introduced by the artist. The screening will feature Baldessari’s rarely seen films from the 1970s, including Title (1972) and Four Short Films (1972-73), as well as selected early video works.
John Baldessari is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. From his text-and-image canvases and photo series to his films and videos, Baldessari’s works are informed by popular culture, movies in particular. Film stills, Hollywood and genre movies, scripts, and the tropes of cinematic language are all deployed, with wit and irony, as source material.
Baldessari’s conceptual videos from the 1970s—such as Baldessari Sings Lewitt (1972) and I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971)—are among his best-known works. Less well known are his important 16mm and super-8 films from the same period. The films Six Colorful Inside Jobs (1977) and Four Short Films consider the medium in relation to performance and painting processes, while Script (1972) and Title employ amateur ensemble casts to deconstruct the syntax of narrative cinema. In deadpan videos such as Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios (1973), Baldessari illustrates how Hollywood movie vernacular is embedded in the collective unconscious.
