Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain, Paris
Bilingual French/English version
Hardback, 22 × 28 cm, 124 pages
70 color reproductions
From March 14 to June 21, 2015, the Fondation Cartier
pour l’art contemporain is honored to present a major
solo exhibition of American artist Bruce Nauman,
the first in over 15 years in France. On this occasion,
the artist made a careful selection of recent works
never shown in France before, along with some earlier
installations, created from a wide array of media that
he has explored throughout his career.
Designed in close collaboration with the artist, the book
published on this occasion will present this exceptional
exhibition through photographs, notes and sketches,
and will allow the reader to gain a deeper understanding
of a work that defies categorization, somewhere between
conceptual and minimalist art.
Authors: Joan Simon and Robert Storr
ISBN: 978-2-86925-117-5
Price: €35
Publication date: April 2015
Distribution: Thames & Hudson
A prolific artist, recognized as one of the most influential
of his generation, Bruce Nauman (b. 1941, Fort Wayne,
Indiana, United States) has developed a body of work
combining sculpture, video, neon, installation, and
performance art since the late 1960s. Bruce Nauman is
attached to notions or ideas concerning the body and
identity, the function of language, the perception of
space, as well as the participation of spectators. He is
also particularly interested in the world of dance—the
expression of the body in movement. Influenced by his
encounter with musician John Cage and choreographer
Merce Cunningham, he began producing in 1967 a
series of filmed performances in which banal, everyday
gestures or simple phrases are repeated in a methodical
fashion. In the 1970s and 1980s, he used neon in his
works, playing with words, or representing scenes of
a sexual nature. His more recent pieces continue to
question the ideas or concepts he has explored since
the beginning of his career, adding to an exceptionally
rich body of work.
Bruce Nauman’s work has been the subject of numerous
monographic exhibitions all over the world, notably at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1972), the
Kunsthalle in Basel (1986), the Musée d’Art moderne
de la Ville de Paris (1986), the Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (1993), the
MoMA in New York (1995), the Hirshhorn Museum
in Washington (1994), and the Tate Modern in
London (2004). In 2009, Bruce Nauman represented
the United States at the Venice Biennale and was
awarded the Golden Lion for the best national pavilion.
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