Bruce Nauman
Artist biography _ Tate
Bruce
Nauman born
1941
American
sculptor noted also for his environments, films and videotapes. Born in Fort
Wayne, Indiana. Studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison 1960-4 (first
mathematics, then art), and at the University of California at Davis 1965-6.
Stopped painting in 1965 and began to make objects, performance pieces and
films. First one-man exhibition, of fibreglass sculptures, at the Nicholas
Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, 1966. Moved in 1966 to San Francisco. Made
sculptures based on the backs of objects or moulded from parts of his own body;
also works concerned with the notion of hiddenness or inaccessibility, and neon
pieces with words (sometimes more or less illegible). Since 1968 his work has
consisted mainly of performance pieces, e.g. films of such actions as Bouncing
Two Balls between the Floor and the Ceiling with Changing Rhythms, or
corridors and installations involving a limited degree of spectator
participation and exploring effects of parallax, audio-tactile separation,
disorientation, etc. Lives in Pasadena, California.
Published
in:
Ronald
Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than
Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London
1981, p.552
looking at this artists work on hanging televisions gave me the idea to display more than one video at a time
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