Bruce Nauman

🗿📷🔳🎬Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico.

Some of Nauman's earliest work was shaped by ideas that arose in the wake of Minimalism in the late 1960s.

In particular, the way he treated the body - often his own, shown on video completing repetitive tasks - and the way he related the body to surrounding objects show the impact of Minimalism's new ideas about the relationship between the viewer and the sculptural object. 

“I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.”

Art, for him, is a haphazard system of codes and signs, just like any other form of communication.

Aside from informing his use of words, it has also encouraged him to use "readymade" objects - objects that, unlike paintings or traditional sculptures, already carry meanings and associations from their use in the world - and to make casts of objects ranging from the space underneath chairs to human body parts.

Current exhibitions:

ECKERT FINE ART

American Works on Paper

Kent, Dec 2, 2017 – Jan 7, 2018

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO

Art and Space

Bilbao, Dec 5, 2017 – Apr 15, 2018

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VINCE FINE ARTS/EPHEMERA

ARTephemera

Miami, Jun 19, 2016 – Dec 31, 2019

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