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Ranging from cubic block constructions to perspectival black-and-white grids to colored images of shaving cream, Bochner??€™s work is essentially discursive and involves a response or conversation with certain ideological and visual contradictions. In what seems like a cold, bloodless and scientific artistic expression, there is actually an underlying and fundamental exuberance—a fervent obsession with ideas and a perpetual fixation on objectivity...
...exhibit is a compilation of separate photographic series that together form the first complete overview of Bochner??€™s short-lived career in photography. The photographs show how Bochner??€™s originality of thought hovers between artistic movements. While structurally indebted to minimalism, the photographic process denies the materiality of the object, thus gesturing towards conceptualism. But, because the photographic process is inevitably influenced by some degree of chance, Bochner is not simply translating unmediated literal concepts directly into visual form. Instead, he allows the interference and complication of the artistic process to advance the conceptual foundations...
...first group of images—which is also his oldest work—describes Bochner??€™s investigation of block structures constructed from a systematic arrangement of two-inch cubes. Grid-like and highly organized in both presentation and content, the photographs depict the formation of these assembled cubic modules and their dependence on a mathematically predetermined model. Schematic diagrams that are evidence of the work’s interest in seriality are shown in conjunction with several views of the block structures. As Bochner stated, this series is principally about the process rather than the object. Attempting...
...incessant chain of increasingly complex visual premises and ideas, Bochner??€™s perspective series asks the viewer probing questions. Understanding linear one-point and two-point perspective as an invented illusionistic device or artistic tool, one will also observe that this ready-made and prefabricated formulaic system of perspective is unnecessary in photography as the image inherently depicts depth on its own. Nevertheless, Bochner applies the device of perspective to photography as a way of analyzing and looking at the artistic device itself, rather than actually using it. Portraying linear perspective as the image of a black or white...
...Bochner??€™s photographs are like enigmatic riddles that must be deciphered in a logical and mathematical way. The pleasure that the viewer derives from his work lies in the beauty of the ideas that sustain the imagery...