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from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Baldessari, radically influential Conceptual artist, dies at 88<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By SUZANNE MUCHNIC, DORANY PINEDA, DEBORAH VANKIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Baldessari likened his task to that of writers of detective fiction or poetry who build an \u201carchitecture of meaning\u201d by juxtaposing disparate elements. (Los Angeles Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1970, Los Angeles artist John Baldessari was ready to take his work in a new direction, so he gathered up paintings he made between 1953 and 1966, brought them to a mortuary and had them cremated \u2014 the remains laid to rest in an urn for what would eventually be called \u201cCremation Project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in the act of destruction, Baldessari was a man of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty-seven years later, when The Times visited the 85-year-old artist in his L.A. studio<\/a>, <\/strong>Baldessari was in the midst of no fewer than five new series of works, with a survey exhibition of sculptural prints opening soon at the L.A. studio Mixografia and a retrospective on the horizon at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This seemingly tireless spirit \u2014 a gentle giant of Conceptual art whose irreverent questions about the nature of art brought him international acclaim and shaped a generation of younger talent \u2014 died in his sleep Thursday at 88. The death was confirmed Sunday by Baldessari\u2019s foundation and by Margo Leavin, his former Los Angeles art dealer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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