About this artwork
Since the 1960s, pioneering Conceptual artist Mel Bochner has produced a diverse and compelling body of work preoccupied with the gap between an idea and its material manifestation. By 1967 he had turned to photography to record time-based conceptual processes. In this work, the artist photographed rows of cubes from an angle and made negative prints. Bochner then cut them into quadrants and installed them in a random order. The term isomorph in the title refers to the equal areas of black and white in each image and in the composition as a whole. The final grouping of 16 Isomorphs (Negative) shows how Bochner could transform a single photograph of building blocks into a galaxy of nonexistent spaces.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Mel Bochner
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Title
- Sixteen Isomorphs (Negative)
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1967
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Medium
- Gelatin silver prints mounted on board
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Dimensions
- 49.5 × 49.5 cm (19 5/8 × 19 9/16 in.); Installed: 226.1 × 355.6 cm (89 1/16 × 140 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block; purchased with funds provided by Focus/Infinity, Mr. and Mrs. H. George Mann, and David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg; Photography Associates Fund
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Reference Number
- 1991.163.1-16
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Copyright
- © 2008 Mel Bochner.
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