John BaldessariRaised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads: Two Foreheads (one Green)
3 runs offset lithograph and 7 runs serigraph on 270 g Somerset Satin
Edition of 30 + 10 APs
Paper format 78 × 70 cm
Print format 65 × 60 cm
Printed by Mike Karstens, Münster, Germany
Published by Freunde der Kunstmuseen Krefeld e.V.
4,900 Euros (unframed, incl. VAT)
2009
3 runs offset lithograph and 7 runs serigraph on 270 g Somerset Satin
Edition of 30 + 10 APs
Paper format 78 × 70 cm
Print format 65 × 60 cm
Printed by Mike Karstens, Münster, Germany
Published by Freunde der Kunstmuseen Krefeld e.V.
4,900 Euros (unframed, incl. VAT)
“I am interested”, as Baldessari says, “in what occurs when two images collide. It is much as when two words collide and a new word with some kind of new meaning arises. And I work my way back and forth on that.” The ten-colour art print which has been done specially for the exhibition in Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, is a prize example of Baldessari's witty and ingenious ars combinatoria. By freeing the individual elements of the human body from one another - such as the ears, nose, arms, legs, elbows or, as here, the eyebrows and forehead - the artist highlights human gestures, attitudes and frames of mind. To this end, the present print depicts a man's furrowed forehead vis-à-vis a woman's smooth brow, such that the opposition between beauty and ugliness descends like a portent on the latter and begins to fuse with it - in an amalgam that reminds us every bit as much of horror films as René Magritte. Through the powerful use of colour, the eye-brows simultaneously point to the struggle against the ineluctable force of aging
