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Bruce Nauman Art

American, b. 1941
Life and work - via Wikipedia Bruce Nauman (American, b. 1941) In the 1960s, Nauman began to exhibit his work at Nicholas Wilder's gallery in Los Angeles and in New York at Leo Castelli in 1968 along with early solo shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in 1972. Nauman's use of neon as a medium recurs in his works over the decades. He uses neon to make allusions to the numinous connotations of light, similar to Mario Merz, who used neon to bring new life to assemblages of mundane objects. Neon also connotes the public atmosphere by the means of advertising, and in his later works he uses it ironically with private, erotic imagery as seen in his Hanged Man (1985). His Self Portrait as a Fountain (1966) shows the artist spouting a stream of water from his mouth. At the end of the 1960s, Nauman began constructing claustrophobic and enclosed corridors and rooms that could be entered by visitors and which evoked the experience of being locked in and of being abandoned. A series of works inspired by one of the artist's dreams was brought together under the title of Dream Passage and created in 1983, 1984, and 1988. In his installation Changing Light Corridor with Rooms (1971), a long corridor is shrouded in darkness, whilst two rooms on either side are illuminated by bulbs that are timed to flash at different rates. Since the mid-1980s, primarily working with sculpture and video, Nauman developed disturbing psychological and physical themes incorporating images of animal and human body parts, depicting sadistic allusions to games and torture together with themes of surveillance. In 1988, after a hiatus of nearly two decades focused on time-based media, he resumed his work with cast objects.
(Biography provided by Todd Mauritz)
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Artist: Bruce Nauman
Recognized Seller Listings
I Learned Helplessness from Rats
By Bruce Nauman
Located in New York, NY
Frame size: 23 x 25 3/8 inches Catalogue Raisonne: Cordes 61 Edition size: 35, plus proofs Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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1980s Bruce Nauman Art

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Drypoint, Etching

Proof of Pudding
By Bruce Nauman
Located in New York, NY
Frame size: 44 x 51 inches Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Edition size: 18, plus proofs Catalogue raisonné: Cordes 31 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower...
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1970s Contemporary Bruce Nauman Art

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Lithograph

M. Ampere
By Bruce Nauman
Located in London, GB
78.7 x 115 cm Signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 50.
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1970s Bruce Nauman Art

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Lithograph

Silver Grotto/Yellow Grotto
By Bruce Nauman
Located in New York, NY
Printer and publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Catalogue raisonné: Cordes 36 Edition size: 20, plus proofs Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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1970s Bruce Nauman Art

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Screen

Suck Cuts
By Bruce Nauman
Located in New York, NY
Printer: Gemini G.E.L. Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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Late 20th Century Bruce Nauman Art

Materials

Lithograph

Raw War
By Bruce Nauman
Located in London, GB
70.5 x 91.4 cm Signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100 + 10 artist's proofs.
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1970s Bruce Nauman Art

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Lithograph

Raw War
By Bruce Nauman
Located in New York, NY
Publisher: Castelli Graphics, NY and Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles Edition size: 100, plus proofs Catalogue raisonné: Cordes 7 Signed, dated, and numbered, lower margin
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1970s Contemporary Bruce Nauman Art

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Lithograph

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