John Baldessari at Museo Malba, Buenos Aires

First South American survey devoted to John Baldessari (United States, 1931-2020), the great pioneer of conceptual art. The exhibition features a selection of 45 works, spanning paintings, photographs and installations drawn from the collection of Craig Robins – a friend, promoter, close interlocutor and one of the most important collectors of Baldessari’s work.⁠

John Baldessari: The End of the Line reviews 50 years of the artist’s work organized in four thematic groupings by Karen Grimson, curator of the Craig Robins Collection. The exhibition highlights Baldessari’s foundational works from the 1960s and ‘70s; the radical incineration of his own work; his serial approach to photography; and his ongoing exploration of the interplay between imagery and language, between the world of text and that of ideas.⁠