Bruce Nauman

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

Life

Bruce Nauman studied from 1960 in Madison at the University of Wisconsin Mathematics, Physics and Art and graduated with a Bachelor here. In 1964 he moved to the University of California at Davis and completed his art studies in 1966 with the master title. Nauman worked temporarily as an assistant by the painter Wayne Thiebaud, and taught from 1966 at the Art Institute in San Francisco. At this time, Nauman turned away from the painting and began to work in the fields of film, sculpture and performance. In addition to his lively artistic production Nauman taught again and again in art schools, so at the beginning of the 1970s in Irvine at the University of California.

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

Work

Bruce Nauman's work with a variety of materials, installations and sculptures on photographs and neon to video recordings, deal mainly with questions of human sensory perception. The viewer is often confronted with irritating to shocking experience.

His presented at documenta IX video installation Anthro / Socio - bark Spinning example shows the opera singer Rinde Eckert, which rotates on multiple screens around its own axis while steadily and aggressively repeated a disturbing chant: " Feed me / Eat me / Anthropology " or " Help me / hurt me / Sociology " in superimposed soundtrack.

Bruce Nauman received a significant early response to his artistic work. The first solo exhibition in a gallery was aligned him in Los Angeles in 1966. Two years later he had his first European gallery exhibition in Dusseldorf, parallel set him Leo Castelli in New York. In the same year he met the well-known American singer and choreographer Meredith Monk, the minimalist composer Steve Reich and grappled with the works of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1969 he collaborated with Meredith Monk and directed her in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, New York, a performance.

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

Exhibitions (selection, primarily individual exhibitions)

Public collections

• Migros Museum of Contemporary Art
• Modern Art Gallery, Schaffhausen
• Collection: Museum Brandhorst, Munich
• Kunsthaus Zurich
• New National Gallery, Berlin

Awards (selection)