ARTIST NAME: Bruce Nauman
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ARTIST NAME: Bruce Nauman
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Bruce Nauman
Biography:
"The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967. Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension supports; 59 x 55 x 2 inches |
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Born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bruce Nauman has
been recognized since the early 1970s as one of the most innovative and
provocative of America’s contemporary artists. Nauman finds inspiration
in the activities, speech, and materials of everyday life. Confronted
with “What to do?” in his studio soon after graduating from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1964 with a BFA, and then the
University of California, Davis in 1966 with an MFA, Nauman had the
simple but profound realization that “If I was an artist and I was in
the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this
point art became more of an activity and less of a product.” Working in
the diverse mediums of sculpture, video, film, printmaking, performance,
and installation, Nauman concentrates less on the development of a
characteristic style and more on the way in which a process or activity
can transform or become a work of art. A survey of his diverse output
demonstrates the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and crass
methods by which Nauman examines life in all its gory details, mapping
the human arc between life and death. The text from an early neon work
proclaims: “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.”
Whether or not we—or even Nauman—agree with this statement, the
underlying subtext of the piece emphasizes the way in which the
audience, artist, and culture at large are involved in the resonance a
work of art will ultimately have. Nauman lives in New Mexico. -Source: PBS |
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