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Mel Bochner – Blah Blah Blah Blah
Mel Bochner, Blah Blah Blah is a unique Monoprint with collage, engraving, embossment, and paint on Twinrocker handmade paper. This artwork made in 2012 is signed and dated in pencil in the upper left recto.
Bochner’s attitude to both photography and painting is ambivalent. He has taken photographs which allude to the condition of painting: smears of Vaseline on glass, wriggles of shaving foam flecked with red (like raspberry sauce dribbled on whipped cream, or the aftermath of a bathroom shaving accident). These images are both compelling and nasty to contemplate.
Operating between the poles of pleasure and revulsion, intelligence and rank stupidity, Bochner has it every which way. He searches for meaning and revels in none. Throughout his long career (he is now in his 80s) he has been an ideas man, and has returned again and again to painting: geometric shapes daubed directly on the wall, one-colour canvases hung in a row and, since the early 1990s, works in which words are the only images.
| Title | Blah Blah Blah Blah |
|---|---|
| Medium | Collage, Engraving, Monoprint |
| Year | 2012 |
| Edition | Unique |
| Signature | Signed, dated |
| Size | 11.5 x 8.5 (in) 29 x 22 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |
Description
Mel Bochner, Blah Blah Blah is a unique Monoprint with collage, engraving, embossment, and paint on Twinrocker handmade paper. This artwork made in 2012 is signed and dated in pencil in the upper left recto.
Bochner’s attitude to both photography and painting is ambivalent. He has taken photographs which allude to the condition of painting: smears of Vaseline on glass, wriggles of shaving foam flecked with red (like raspberry sauce dribbled on whipped cream, or the aftermath of a bathroom shaving accident). These images are both compelling and nasty to contemplate.
Operating between the poles of pleasure and revulsion, intelligence and rank stupidity, Bochner has it every which way. He searches for meaning and revels in none. Throughout his long career (he is now in his 80s) he has been an ideas man, and has returned again and again to painting: geometric shapes daubed directly on the wall, one-colour canvases hung in a row and, since the early 1990s, works in which words are the only images.
Additional information
| Title | Blah Blah Blah Blah |
|---|---|
| Medium | Collage, Engraving, Monoprint |
| Year | 2012 |
| Edition | Unique |
| Signature | Signed, dated |
| Size | 11.5 x 8.5 (in) 29 x 22 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |