Text and interview by Frederic Paul.
One of the founding figures of conceptual art, and one of its most astute critics, Mel Bochner combines colour and language in his work.
Mel Bochner (born 1940) coined some of Postminimalist and Conceptual art's most characteristic strategies--the gallery as subject, language as material, the photo documentation of works as the work itself, the appropriation of ephemeral ...
Mel Bochner: If the colour changes; Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung in London, Whitechapel Gallery, 12.10.-30.12.2012 und in München, Haus der Kunst,...
This volume surveys Bochner's longstanding engagement with various types of printmaking, from aquatints to monoprints.
Art Gallery Magazine 14 (April 1971): 32–33. Rorimer, Anne. New Art in the 60s and 70s, Redefining Reality. London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. Meyer, James. “Bochner's Measurement Series.” In Kontext Kunst, edited by Peter Weibel, 129–33.
Mel Bochner, 1973-1985: Exhibition
Perhaps best known for his paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Bochner became deeply involved with photography in the mid- to late 1960s, although most of these works have only recently been exhibited.
This book offers a rare insight into what it means to be an artist whose visual practice is inseparable from the sustained practice of writing. Mel Bochner has lived and worked in New York City since 1964.
Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at Eykyn Maclean, New York, 3 November - 16 December 2016
Mel Bochner, Drawings 1966-1973