Bruce Nauman

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Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne , Indiana , USA ) is an American conceptual artist .

Life

Bruce Nauman studied mathematics, physics and art in Madison at the University of Wisconsin from 1960 on , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree. In 1964 he moved to the University of California at Davis and finished his art studies in 1966 with a master's degree. Nauman worked temporarily as an assistant to the painter Wayne Thiebaud and taught at the Art Institute in San Francisco from 1966 . At this time, Nauman turned away from painting and began working in the fields of film, sculpture, and performance . In addition to his lively artistic production, Nauman repeatedly taught at art schools, for example at the University of California in Irvine in the early 1970s .

In 1989 Nauman moved to Galisteo , New Mexico , where he lives and works.

Since 1997 he has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

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Truncated Pyramid Room by Nauman in Loerrach
Double Cage Piece , 1974, in Berlin-Mitte

Bruce Nauman's works with a wide variety of materials, from installations and sculptures to photographs and neon to video recordings , deal primarily with questions of human sensory perception. The viewer is often confronted with irritating to shocking experiences.

His video installation Anthro / Socio - Rinde Spinning , which was presented at documenta IX , shows the opera singer Rinde Eckert, who spins around his own axis on several screens and constantly and aggressively repeats a disturbing chant: "Feed me / Eat me / Anthropology" or "Help me / Hurt me / Sociology" in superimposed sound track.

Bruce Nauman received considerable feedback on his artistic work early on. The first solo exhibition in a gallery was held in Los Angeles in 1966. Two years later he had his first European gallery exhibition in Düsseldorf, at the same time Leo Castelli exhibited him in New York . In the same year he met the well-known American singer and choreographer Meredith Monk , the minimalist composer Steve Reich and dealt with the works of John Cage , Merce Cunningham and Karlheinz Stockhausen . In 1969 he cooperated with Meredith Monk and staged a performance with her as part of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art , MOMA, New York .

Nauman himself names the most influential personalities on him and his work: Samuel Beckett , Ludwig Wittgenstein , John Cage , Philip Glass , La Monte Young and Meredith Monk .

Exhibitions

Selection, mainly solo exhibitions:

Public collections

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Christine Hoffmann (Ed.): Bruce Nauman. Interviews 1967–1988. Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-86572-417-5 .
  • Bruce Nauman - Spaces of Self-Experience . In: Markus Stegmann: Architectural Sculpture in the 20th Century. Historical aspects and work structures , Tübingen 1995, pp. 122–128.
  • Friederike Wappler: Post-Minalism. About Bruce Nauman's “Concrete Tope Recorder Piece.” In: Canon Art History. Introduction to works, methods and epochs. Present IV. Edited by Kristin Marek and Martin Schulz. Paderborn 2015, pp. 92-105.
  • Peter Plagens: Bruce Nauman. The True Artist. , Phaidon Press , London 2014, ISBN 978-0714849959 .

Web links

Commons : Bruce Nauman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Bruce Nauman at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, accessed on October 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 212 .
  3. ↑ Sculpture Projects Archive : Bruce Nauman, Square Depression . (Accessed December 30, 2019)
  4. ↑ Page of the museum on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 6, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ica.org.uk
  5. ↑ Ed Atkins, Bruce Nauman ( August 10, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nauman, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Wayne , USA