"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Throwing Four Balls in the Air to Get a Square" (1972-73)
"Throwing Four Balls in the Air to Get a Square," 1972-73
8 Color photographs, 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches each
© John Baldessari
Courtesy the artist
8 Color photographs, 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches each
© John Baldessari
Courtesy the artist
"You’re just taking things apart, putting them back together again, taking them apart, putting them back together again. Art’s play."
-John Baldessari
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