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Michael Baldwin (born 1945 in

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, Oxfordshire,

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; lives in

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, near

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, England) is a British

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...

ist, author and founding member of the Art & Language artist group.

Life and work

Michael Baldwin studied at Coventry College of Art from 1964 to 1967 and taught at

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from 1969 to 1971 and at Leamington School of Art from 1969. Mirror piece is an installation of variable dimensions he created in 1965. It is composed of multiple mirrors of different sizes covered with regular or deforming glass plates, presented on wooden panels. This installation is accompanied by a protocol and text panels. Michael Baldwin met the artist

Terry Atkinson Terry Atkinson (born 1939) is an English artist. Atkinson was born in Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1967, he began to ...

in 1966 at Coventry College of Art, where Atkinson taught. They founded the avant-garde Art & Language group in 1968. As a member of Art & Language in 1972, Michael Baldwin took part in

Documenta 5 documenta 5 was the fifth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 30 June and 8 October 1972 in Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hes ...

in Kassel with the project ''Index 0001'' in the ''Idea + Idea/Light'' section, together with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge,

Ian Burn Ian Burn (29 December 1939 – 29 September 1993) was an Australian conceptual artist. He was a member of the Art and Language group that flourished in the 1970s. Ian Burn was also an art writer, curator, and scholar. Biography Ian Burn was ...

Charles Harrison Charles Harrison may refer to: * Charles Harrison (artist) (1942-2009), British Conceptual artist & member of the artist group Art & Language * Charles Harrison (Australian politician) (1915–1986), member of the South Australian House of Assembly ...

, Harold Hurrell,

Mel Ramsden Mel Ramsden (born 1944) is a British conceptual artist and member of the Art & Language artist group. Life and work Ramsden was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Great Britain. He studied at Nottingham College of Art from 1961 to 1963, went to ...

and

Joseph Kosuth Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945), an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London,

. With Art & Language he was also represented at

Documenta 6 documenta 6 was the sixth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 24 June and 2 October 1977 in Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hess ...

(1977),

Documenta 7 ''documenta 7'' was the seventh edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 19 June and 28 October 1982 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Rudi Fuchs Rudolf Herman "Rudi" Fuchs (born ...

in 1982 and

Documenta X documenta X was the tenth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 21 June and 28 September 1997 in Kassel, Germany. The artistic director was Catherine David. This was the first time a woman was ap ...

in 1997. Since 1977, Baldwin and Ramsden have continued Art & Language as a project. Many texts were written with Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden, who has been publishing " Art-Language" since 1971.

References

* Exhibition catalogue: ''documenta 5: Questioning reality – visual worlds today''. Catalogue (as file) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: (list of exhibitions); Kassel 1972 * documenta Archiv (ed.): ''Wiedervorlage d5 – Eine Befragung des Archivs zum documenta 1972''. Kassel/Ostfildern 2001, * Catalogue for documenta 6: Volume 1: ''Painting, Sculpture/Environment, Performance''. Volume 2: Photography, Film, Video. Volume 3: Hand Drawings, Utopian Design, Books. Kassel 1977 * Catalogue: ''documenta 7 Kassel''. Volume 1: (Visual biographies of the artists); Volume 2: (Current works of the artists); Kassel 1982 * (documenta 10 catalogue): ''Politics – Poetics – the book on documenta X''. Kassel/Ostfildern 1997, (German) / (English) * Marzona, Daniel: ''Conceptual Art''. Cologne 2005

External links

Examples of his works

Art & Language: Blurting in A & L online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin, Michael 1945 births Living people People from Chipping Norton Alumni of Coventry School of Art and Design Artists from Oxfordshire British conceptual artists English contemporary artists Art & Language