
The Intersection Series: Person Playing Poker/Beach Scene
Five panel work combines fragmented photographic imagery culled from cinematic sources, juxtaposing a tense poker game with a leisurely beach scene to create an unexpected narrative collision. Baldessari disrupts the visual logic of each image by obscuring key figures and details with bold circular spots of acrylic paint, a signature device that simultaneously conceals and heightens curiosity. The work exemplifies his ongoing investigation into the language of film, chance, and the way meaning is constructed through the pairing and interruption of images.
- Medium
- digital photographic prints, one with acrylic paint, each mounted to Sintra, in artist's frames, in 5 parts
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 10, 2016
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