Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

Birthday: 1941-12-06

Place of Birth:

Biography: Bruce Nauman is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico.

Movies

For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and finger)
For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and finger)

HD video installation (color, stereo sound), continuous play, two HD video sources, two HD video pro...

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Contrapposto Studies, I through VII
Contrapposto Studies, I through VII

This exhibition presents a new work by Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII, which cont...

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Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk)
Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk)

A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence o...

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Art Make-Up
Art Make-Up

Art Make-Up is composed of four individual segments, each 10 minutes long. In them, Nauman appears t...

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Walk with Contrapposto
Walk with Contrapposto

"In this videotape Nauman attempted to maintain the contrapposto pose associated with classical and ...

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Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)
Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)

The artist Bruce Nauman set the corner post of a fence on his ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico, one day...

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Playing a Note on the Violin While I Walk Around in the Studio
Playing a Note on the Violin While I Walk Around in the Studio

In this film record of a studio activity, Nauman set himself the task of walking while playing "two ...

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Stamping in the Studio
Stamping in the Studio

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and...

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Washing Hands Abnormal
Washing Hands Abnormal

In this work, shown on two stacked monitors, Bruce Nauman washes his hands with a thoroughness borde...

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Washing Hands Normal
Washing Hands Normal

This stacked two-screen video installation shows the artist washing his hands with a vigour that goe...

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No, No
No, No

“Two color monitors placed in the window played one of Nauman’s most recent videos, that of a clown ...

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Bouncing Balls
Bouncing Balls

In this film, Nauman bounces his testicles with one hand. Shot in extreme close-up, the work is perh...

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Violin Tuned D.E.A.D
Violin Tuned D.E.A.D

In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1), Nauman ...

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Violin Film #1 (Playing The Violin As Fast As I Can)
Violin Film #1 (Playing The Violin As Fast As I Can)

Violin Film #1 (Playing the Violin as Fast as I Can), is one of several 1967-68 films featuring Naum...

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Flour Arrangements
Flour Arrangements

Flour Arrangements, a photo series showing Bruce Nauman pushing some piles of flour around on the fl...

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Black Balls
Black Balls

In this film, Nauman applies black makeup to his testicles. The action was recorded with an industri...

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The Bruce Nauman Story
The Bruce Nauman Story

Creative portrait of the artist Bruce Nauman....

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Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square
Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square

Bruce Nauman - Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) (1968), 16mm black-and-...

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Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square
Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square

In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off with masking tap...

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4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg

4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg acts as a collective portrait of ...

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