Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible.
(eVideo)

eVideo

English

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Film

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Mel Bochner, Richard Field, Yve-Alain Bois

Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1997.

A major retrospective exhibition of the early work of Mel Bochner provides an opportunity to experience the site-specific installations of the artist. Bochner's work uses the commonest of materials: pen-and-ink diagrams, photographs, tape, stones, pennies, and the very simplest of symbol systems: measurement, counting, combinations of prepositions, series of short phrases. But while the elements are easily understandable, the art is found in the unexpected questioning of how simple things may reveal the complexity of our relationship to the greater world. That relationship is established through language, and in Bochner's art it takes the form of a dialogue between practice (the physical work) and theory (the pure idea). Defining his subject as "the contradiction between physical space and mental space," Bochner locates intention - and thus emotion - in the procedure, in the site, and in the mind of the viewer.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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