Flour Arrangements
Flour Arrangements, a photo series showing Bruce Nauman pushing some piles of flour around on the floor. He uses his body by treating it like...
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Images of sixteen men and women are shown, one by one, as they run on a conveyor belt against a black background. They appear to be in a complete...
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In this work, shown on two stacked monitors, Bruce Nauman washes his hands with a thoroughness bordering on obsession. Each from a different...
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This video registration of a performance in his studio shows Bruce Nauman walking the perimeter of different shapes: circles, spirals and figure...
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On three projection surfaces and six monitors, one sees the head of a man shown in different takes. While continually revolving about his own axis,...
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This stacked two-screen video installation shows the artist washing his hands with a vigour that goes beyond a daily cleaning ritual. The energy of...
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Art Make-Up is composed of four individual segments, each 10 minutes long. In them, Nauman appears tightly framed by the camera against a blank...
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A stationary camera set upside down and framing a long shot of the studio records Nauman, with his hands clasped behind his back, repeating a...
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Nauman, his head cropped from the frame, is shown bouncing in the corner of his studio. Here, however, the images were recorded with a fixed camera...
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For this videotape, Nauman turned the camera sideways and positioned it so that his head is cropped from the frame and his body is presented from...
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A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works...
See moreManipulating the T-Bar
Nauman shot two films in 1965, and despite their rudimentary execution they make a compelling diptych. Manipulating the T-Bar (1965) shows the...
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This film records the activities Nauman performed four years earlier in 1965. Both in this performance and in this work he strikes and holds a...
See moreDance 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-white film For this film, Bruce Nauman made a...
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Bruce assumes a set of positions in relation to the wall and floor.
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In the work two monitors are displayed at head height on pedestals. The head and shoulders of a young black man appear on one; on the other is an...
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"In this videotape Nauman attempted to maintain the contrapposto pose associated with classical and Renaissance sculpture while walking down a long...
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