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- Not only have his installations, films, and sculptures influenced fellow artists and the broader domain of art, but also his engagement with galleries like Leo Castelli and Nicholas Wilder has marked significant shifts in how art is exhibited and sold.
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He first produced fiberglass sculptures in 1965, using casting to focus on the process of art-making itself, and entering the Process art movement by disregarding the art object itself in favor of its creation. By the fall of 1966, art making for Nauman had become not a method by which to make a finished product, but an activity that was art in ...
- American
- December 6, 1941
- Fort Wayne, Indiana
Apr 26, 2024 · Experimentation With Neon. Nauman’s engagement with neon as a medium began in the 1960s, marking a pivotal shift in his artistic process. Through the use of neon tubing, he investigates the interplay of language, signs, and body, crafting messages that are both visually arresting and conceptually rich.
Oct 15, 2018 · Nauman is tall and physically imposing, but the destabilizing effect of meeting one of the most influential American artists was mitigated by his short-sleeved-Hawaiian-shirt-and-dad-jeans mien....
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Coming of age amid the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, Nauman never adhered to rigid distinctions between the arts, but rather has staked his career on “investigating the possibilities of what art may be.” 2
Apr 29, 2024 · Bruce Nauman, American artist whose work in a range of mediums, including photography, performance, video, neon, installation, and print, made him a major figure in conceptual art. He irreverently tested the idea of art as a stable vehicle of communication and the role of the artist as revelatory communicator.
By 2001, the sculpture Henry Moore Bound to Fail (1967), a wax and plaster cast of Nauman's own arms tied behind his back, had set a new auction record for postwar art when Christie's sold it for $9.9 million to François Pinault.
material of their art to transcend it: Nauman, and other of his generation, did not. Instead, Nauman’s work transgresses many genres of art making in that his work explores the implications of minimalism, conceptual, performance, and process art. In this sense we could call Nauman’s art “Postminimalism,” a term coined
