August 15, 2014
STRONG LANGUAGE by BOCHNER (US artist)
By Andrew Cardozo
Words are the currency of think tanks and this artist challenges us to think about the words we use, as he gives words an imaginative artistic rendition….make sure its all not blah, blah, blah!
Artist Mel Bochner has a great exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York. He is considered a leader in conceptual art in the 60s and 70s, that deal with his “career-long fascination with the cerebral and visual associations of language. The exhibit juxtaposes the vernacular agasint the promer, the proper and the vulgar…”
His show is at the well regarded Jewish Museum in New York: http://thejewishmuseum.org
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