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Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner (Born 1940) is active/lives in New York.  Mel Bochner is known for Non objective-grids, sculptor.

Mel Bochner, a post-Minimalist artist, best known for installations and paintings that probe the abstract concept of measurement, was born in Pittsburgh. After graduating from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1962, he travelled to San Francisco, before settling in New York City in 1964. While in New York City he joined Sol Lewitt, Eva Hesse, and Robert Smithson to bring the art world to a post-Minimalist sensibility through both works of art and writings.

In the late 1960s, Bochner, like other Conceptual artists, turned away from self-expression, choosing instead to explore organized systems of thought, such as language and mathematics, through artistic practices that used minimal aesthetics. Bochner had presented drawings in galleries that followed specific systems based on circular forms, on the compass, and on the measurements of the exhibition space. He has also used sculptural pieces to explore basic properties of measurement, weight, and gravity.
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.   305 auction records.  1 upcoming.