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150 × 140 cm. KM 117.492. Sculpture. 20th century. Provocative text. Window or Wall Sign initially hung in the window of Bruce Nauman’s studio in a shopping street in San Francisco, next to the then still present advertisement for a beer brand.
Oct 15, 2018 · In “The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign)” (1967), the titular message is spelled out in looping cursive in a spiral, moving from the inside out....
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Oct 19, 2018 · “The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign),” from 1967, neon tubing with clear-glass-tubing suspension frame. Credit...
Window or Wall Sign is one of the pieces in Bruce Nauman’s oeuvre that makes all his other art either make a lot more sense or no sense at all. “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.” It makes you want to demand: “He was kidding—wasn’t he?”
Nauman’s 1967 ‘The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths (Window or wall sign)’ was meant to hang in the window at the front of his studio functioning as an advertising sign. Instead, it became one of his most recognizable pieces.
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign) Created in the studio Nauman established in an abandoned grocery store in San Francisco and modeled after the neon advertisement signs nearby, this seminal work acts as an advertisement of a different kind.
Sep 1, 1988 · Take the Window or Wall Sign—you know, the neon piece that says, “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.” That idea occurred to me because of the studio I had in San ...
