In the 1960's it was a fountain of artistic ideas, one of the first revolutionary work of Bruce Nauman was called - "Self-Portrait as a Fountain." Sealed in the picture a young man, as if in mockery of the baroque lions spouting water flows from the gaping mouths, spit into the lens trickle of water. It was Marcel Duchamp, raised to new heights. Duchamp "Fountain" - an ordinary urinal placed in an exhibition space - testified that the artwork appears at the moment, when something is withdrawn from the context of everyday life, begins to comprehend in the context of art. Naumanovsky "Fountain" show that any gesture of the artist, literally everything that happens in his studio, is an art as it is, just as the human mind, living process. So important is not the result, preserved in the gallery or museum and part art as life. Same preached then masters "Fluxus", but Bruce Nauman held aloof from all movements and factions.
Until mid-1980, he remained an artist for his. No, of course, he exhibited worldwide at various Biennale and "documents", for it immediately seized the New York gallery of Leo Castelli - the same one that led the people in the American pop art. But he lived quietly in the wilderness, bred horses on a ranch in New Mexico, dressed in plaid shirts and cowboy hat (he actually once had two university degrees: one - the artist, the other - physics and mathematics). Its understood that he was no worse than Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman but consistently eliminated from the competition.
And then suddenly discovered that all young people - from Matthew Barney to "young Britons" - read it, but not Andy Warhol, his teacher. What is Bruce Nauman regularly tops the ranking of the most influential artists of our time. He began to buy, and now François Pinault lays tens of millions of its objects. But gilding to it still does not stick. It is quite possible that because of its "topological Gardens" presented today in Venice, will grow a new direction or a new generation.
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Interesting article "Bruce Nauman and his quest for (inter) understanding."
By
Xenia Gurstein.
Only that in Venice it was a retrospective of the grand prize. He - the living classic. And while it is still annoying, is of concern, is knocking at the door of our consciousness ...
Who is he
Along with Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, but as a generation younger than them (he was born in 1941), Bruce Nauman is one of the most influential figures in postwar Western art.
Although, unlike them, Naumann insisted on strict separation of private life and artistic person, a figure he is in a sense, the mythical. According to critics, there is nothing that confirms its importance as a countless number of repetitions and variations on the theme of his works, which still can be found almost every western art college. In this case his own creativity, remaining loyal to a number of central themes, incredibly raznoliko and images, and the methods of execution. He often repeats himself, but not repeated, seeing new variations of the process of continuing self-evaluation and rethinking.
"My job, - said Nauman - stems from a sense of frustration associated with the nature of human existence. And the fact that people refuse to understand other people. I certainly do not think that I can change this, but it is too frustrating part of human history. "
The success and interest of the public came to Naumann not immediately. However, if the market value of works of art truly reflects their significance for his contemporaries, we can conclude that attempts to Nauman express your own disappointment at how the world and human nature for the day were more than udavshimisya. In 2006, he headed the list as the most demanded Artfacts.net living artist. In 1999 he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his long contribution to art, but this year the U.S. Pavilion with a retrospective of his "Topological Centers» (Topological Gardens) /has been awarded on the same Biennale as the best national pavilion.
What's he doing
Except, perhaps, of painting, there is no media in which Nauman not have worked for the last forty years. Sam himself, he still calls a sculptor, but this word should be understood in the broadest sense: his work includes not only objects of metal, cement and latex, and neon signs, photographs, drawings, graphics, installations, performances, video , audio and text. Naumann came to art after studying mathematics and science, and his artistic strategy can be characterized as continuous experiments (over yourself, audience, material) in the search for possible forms of dialogue between them.
It should be noted, however, that experiments Naumann completely under his control. In his own statement, he does not trust the audience participation and provides them with a great degree of freedom in choosing how, under what conditions they will face with his work. Naumann wants to be understood, but is looking for the most effective ways to induce a state of temporary insanity by causing discomfort and making the viewer aggression in creativity.
Apparently, because of the same desire to be understood, and to be understood correctly, Nauman often uses words that became one of the brightest and most recognizable feature of his work. Words, he fills both physical and mental space, asking to bring awareness to the maximum understanding of their place in the system of values and expectations of the coordinates from the world in general and the art world in particular.
But, paradoxically, the inalienability of words in the practice Nauman greatly complicates the task of criticism, from which you want to also describe it in words. It is particularly difficult to write about Naumann in a foreign language, as the artist's interest in instability of lexical and metaphysical values are often expressed in an untranslatable play on words. However, the work of Nauman, taken together, are strong enough to convey his message of deliberately causing even to people who do not speak the native language of the artist.
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06.08.2009, 06:27
Bruce Nauman and his quest for (inter) understanding
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