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Provenance:

Private Collection, Ontario

Literature:

Sarah Scott, Iain Baxter&: Mr. Concept (Toronto: Canadian Art, Spring 2012) http://canadianart.ca/features/iain-baxter-mr-concept/.

Note:

“ [Iain Baxter&] changes the definition of art nearly every time he does something.”

Iain Baxter& is a pioneer of conceptual art who has been pushing artistic boundaries and reinventing himself for more than 50 years. Internationally renowned for his idea of the business as an art form (N.E. Thing. Co, 1966-1978), Baxter& has created an impressive and diverse visual legacy that defies any type of categorization.

In the spirit of Marcel Duchamp and the Dadaist movement, Baxter& uses mass-produced objects to critique our consumerist society. In Bird Bungalow California Design (2009), the multidisciplinary artist prophesies the need for human-made birds dwelling once their natural habitat utterly vanishes.

In 2003, Baxter& was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2012, the AGO held a critically acclaimed retrospective of his career. Baxter&’s artwork is included in multiple Canadian and international collections including those of the AGO, the National Gallery of Canada, the MOMA, the L.A. County Museum, the Visual Art Center of Clarington and the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Netherlands.