size: 251 x 310mm
hardcover
96 pages
This is a collection of works by Mel Bochner, an American artist who was a central figure in post-minimal and conceptual art that developed in New York from the 1960s to the 1970s. He was a pioneer incorporating language into visuals, and he explored the relationship between visual and language to draw attention to the implicit rules that underpin the visual engagement between us and the world.
This work features over 30 new unreleased works in color, and introduces the works and paintings that the author has continued to create throughout his career, based on languages, from a new perspective. Critic Jeremy Sigler unravels the surprising roots of the painting, noting in his mastered essay that the author's recent work shows a return to materiality without reason.
Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He pionered the introduction of the use of language in the visual, probing the way they relate to one another to make us more attentive to the unspoken codes that underpin our visual engagement with the world.
Featuring color plates of more than thirty new, previously unpublished paintings, and accompanied by an essay by Jeremy Sigler, this handsome publication offers a new perspective on Mel Bochner’s career-long engagement with language and painting. Sigler points to how Bochner’s newest images poignantly signal a return to visceral materiality, revealing the unexpected painterly roots of his body of work.
by Mel Bochner
This work features over 30 new unreleased works in color, and introduces the works and paintings that the author has continued to create throughout his career, based on languages, from a new perspective. Critic Jeremy Sigler unravels the surprising roots of the painting, noting in his mastered essay that the author's recent work shows a return to materiality without reason.
Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He pionered the introduction of the use of language in the visual, probing the way they relate to one another to make us more attentive to the unspoken codes that underpin our visual engagement with the world.
Featuring color plates of more than thirty new, previously unpublished paintings, and accompanied by an essay by Jeremy Sigler, this handsome publication offers a new perspective on Mel Bochner’s career-long engagement with language and painting. Sigler points to how Bochner’s newest images poignantly signal a return to visceral materiality, revealing the unexpected painterly roots of his body of work.
by Mel Bochner