Eyebrow, 2009
Digital print, laminated with lexan, mounted on shaped aluminum with acrylic paint. 127 x 40.5 x 15 cm (50 x 16 x 6 in). Edition of 25, with a signed and
numbered certificate.
In the early 2000s, John Baldessari's work consisted primarily of film stills of faces and bodies that were largely covered by layers of paint or collage or altered by the superimposition of paint over the foreheads and eyebrows. The sculpture Eyebrow was created as an edition in 2009 as part of John Baldessari’s unique intervention for the Krefelder Museen Haus Lange and Haus Esters designed by Mies van der Rohe. It was an intervention which inscribed the strict clarity of the architecture with a human motif. The result was a wide range of associations and possibilities for interpretation.
