{"title":"Mel Bochner","description":"\u003cp\u003eMel Bochner (born 1940, Pittsburgh) is an American artist whose practice from the mid-1960s onwards placed language, measurement and systems of notation at the centre of Conceptual art. Working initially in New York, Bochner was among the first artists to use photocopied documents as an exhibition medium, and his early works challenged the boundaries between art object, documentation and idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis \u003cem\u003eWorking Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art\u003c\/em\u003e (1966), presented at the School of Visual Arts in New York, is widely regarded as one of the first Conceptual art exhibitions. Subsequent works explored the relationship between language and perception, using thesaurus entries, measurement systems and numerical sequences as both subject and form. His large-scale word paintings, developed from the 1990s onwards, brought this engagement with language into direct confrontation with painting’s material surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBochner’s participation in group exhibitions such as \u003cem\u003ePhotonotations\u003c\/em\u003e (Rosa Esman Gallery, 1976) reflects his sustained engagement with photography as a medium for conceptual investigation. His work is held in major collections internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate, London.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"photonotations-rosa-esman-gallery-new-york-1976","title":"ARMAN, MEL BOCHNER, SOL LEWITT, ROBERT MANGOLD, SYLVIA MANGOLD, HOWARDENA PINDELL, DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE, GEORGE SEGAL, ROBERT SMITHSON, TOM WESSELMANN et al. — Photonotations. Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003eRosa Esman Gallery, 29 West 57th Street, New York, 4–28 May 1976. Original exhibition invitation. Offset-printed card, 14 × 9 cm. Colour photograph to recto; exhibition information to verso. Photograph by George Segal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General age toning, scattered spotting, minor corner and edge wear, and light surface marks consistent with circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotonotations\u003c\/em\u003e assembled photographs by artists working across sculpture, painting, Minimalism and Conceptual art, including Arman, Bochner, LeWitt, the Mangolds, Pindell, Rockburne, Segal and Smithson. The exhibition belongs to a period in which the camera was increasingly used by artists not simply to produce photographs, but to document temporary actions, stage propositions and carry broader artistic ideas. Rosa Esman Gallery returned to the subject with \u003cem\u003ePhotonotations II\u003c\/em\u003e the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegal’s image already performs the title: a figure works across an illuminated theatre marquee, interrupting its letters and leaving the message temporarily unreadable. On the reverse, the participating artists are converted into another notation — a tightly printed roster concluding simply with “and others.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph becomes announcement, the artists become a list, and the exhibition travels as a card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely card-backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosa Esman Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54008737497426,"sku":"SEGAL-ROSAMESMAN-INV-1976","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Arman_Bochner_Juszczyk_LeWitt_R.Mangold_S.Mangold_Pindell_Pozzi_Rockburne_Sanderson_Segal_Smithson_Wesselmann_Zuyderland._Show_invite_photonotions_._1976.jpg?v=1784137093"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/mel-bochner.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}