Rif: 235045
BALDESSARI, John (National City, 1931 - Los Angeles, 2020)Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)
Milano, Prearo - Galleria Toselli 1973 - Prima edizione di 2000 esemplari (First edition of 2000 numbered copies)
Original edition consisting of 12 plates printed in four colours, collected in light blue cardboard folder with title printed typographically in gold
Impaginazione di Piera Crovetti, stampa Arti Grafiche La Monzese. Ogni copia è numerata e firmata con punzone a secco di garanzia della Prearo Editore
Cm 24x31, pp. 14 tavole Fogli sciolti in cartelletta (loose as issued in original portfolio) Ottimo (Fine)An artist's book in which Baldessari attempts to realise a simple but arbitrary goal, following the rules in a game-like manner. The 36 attempts refer to exposures on a roll of 35 mm film. The resulting images are a documentation of Baldessari's performance, but also the boundary towards abstract images that anticipate later works, in which the artist places brightly coloured circles on photographic images of faces to obscure the identity of the subjects.