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Bruce Nauman
Retrospective
17 March to 26 August 2018
Press Releases
- Last Days – Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts(PDF, 65.04 KB)
- Purchase of Bruce Naumans’ work “Leaping Foxes”(PDF, 64.53 KB)
- Bruce Nauman at Schaulager during Art Basel(PDF, 81.51 KB)
- Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts (March 2018)(PDF, 100.29 KB)
- Bruce Nauman: Publications(PDF, 328.84 KB)
- Kathy Halbreich: Curatorial Statement(PDF, 315.44 KB)
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Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, 17 March to 26 August 2018, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, installation view with Bruce Nauman, Leaping Foxes, 2018, Polyurethane foam with steel and wire cables, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, giftof the president 2018, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche KunstsammlungBasel, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel
Video installation, color, 59:40 min., with two color video monitors, two DVD players, video projector, and chair. Dimensions variable.Purchased jointly by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, with funds from the Bequest of Arthur B. Michael, by exchange; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with funds from the Director's Discretionary Fund and the Painting and Sculpture Committee, 2007, Photo: Ron Amstutz, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich,
Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frames, 107 1/2 × 107 × 5 13/16 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Council Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Wooden wallboards, water-based paint, three video cameras, scanner, frame, five monitors, video recorder, video player, video (black and white, silent), Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, photo: Courtesy Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Plaster, two parts: 10 × 5 1/2 × 4 inches (25.4 × 14 × 10.2 cm) and 9 1/2 × 4 × 4 1/4 inches (24.1 × 10.2 × 10.8 cm), Private Collection, Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York, photo: Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Neon tubing mounted on aluminum, 6 ft. 5 15/16 in. × 6 ft. 6 5/16 in. × 12 9/16 in. (198 × 199 × 32 cm), Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Bisig & Bayer, Basel, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Black and white photograph, 62 × 41 5/8 in. (157.5 × 105.7 cm), Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, photo: Alex Jamison, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Ink, with wash, on paper, 19 × 23 15/16 in. (48.3 x 60.8 cm), Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Wax over plaster with rope, 17 × 26 × 4 1/2 in. (43 × 66 × 11.5 cm), Daros Collection, Switzerland, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Fiberglass and polyester resin, 15 5/8 × 85 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (39.7 × 216.5 × 7 cm), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Agnes E. Meyer and Elise S. Haas Fund and Accessions Committee Fund: gift of Collectors' Forum, Doris and Donald Fisher, Evelyn Haas, Mimi and Peter Haas, Pamela and Richard Kramlich, Elaine McKeon, Byron R. Meyer, Nancy and Steven Oliver, Helen and Charles Schwab, Norah and Norman Stone, Danielle and Brooks Walker, Jr., and Pat and Bill Wilson, photo: Ben Blackwell, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Pencil, black and color grease crayon, and acrylic on patched paper, 6 ft. 5 in. × 60 5/8 in. (195.6 × 154 cm), Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, Purchase 1986, photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Tintenstrahldruck, Ausstellungskopie (ursprünglich Chromogendruck), 49.2 × 60.5 cm, Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gerald S. Elliott Collection, 1994, Foto: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Video (color, sound), 59:30 min., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard, still: Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Pencil and watercolor on paper, 17 1/2 × 23 9/16 in. (44.5 ×59.8 cm), Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Holographic image on glass, 8 ×10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm), Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, gift of the president 2013, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Bisig & Bayer, Basel, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Graphite and masking tape on paper, 55 7/8 × 38 1/4 in. (142 × 97.2 cm), Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart, photo: Dorothy Zeidman, New York, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Steel, inner cage: 6 ft. 13/16 in. × 10 ft. 9 15/16 in. × 14 ft. 111 5/16 in. (185 × 330 × 457 cm ), outer cage: 7 ft. 11/16 in. × 12 ft.10 5/16 × 17 ft. 11/16 in. (216 × 392 × 520 cm), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, photo: Jannes Linders, Rotterdam,© Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame, 70 × 9 × 6 in. (177.8 × 22.9 × 15.2 cm), Philip Johnson Glass House Collection, National Trust for Historic Preservation, photo: Andy Romer Photography, Courtesy of the Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Video (black and white, sound), 60 min., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased from Video Data Bank, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition file courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, still: EAI, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, 17 March to 26 August 2018, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, installation view with Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967, Neon tubing with clear-glass-tubing suspension frame, Collection the artist, exhibition copy, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel
Neon tubing with clear glass tubing on metal, 118 × 132 1/4 × 21 in. (299.7 × 335.9 × 53.3 cm), Collection Benesse Holdings, Inc. / Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, photo: Dorothy Zeidman, Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Wax, plaster, wire, sinks, faucets, clear hoses, pumps, and water,two parts, each: 77 3/16 × 22 13/16 × 25 9/16 in. (196 × 58 × 65 cm), Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway, photo: Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Cast iron, 68.5 × 59 × 6 cm, Ed. 9 + 1AP, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Bisig & Bayer, Basel, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, 17 March to 26 August 2018, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, installation view with Bruce Nauman, Square, Triangle, Circle, 1984, Plaster, steel, and wood, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, 17 March to 26 August 2018, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, installation view with Bruce Nauman, Model for Trench and Four Buried Passages, 1977, Plaster, fiberglass, and wire, Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, 17 March to 26 August 2018, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, installation view with Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, i through vii, 2015/2016, Seven-channel video installation (color, sound), seven projections, continuous play, jointly owned by Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, gift of the president 2017, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired in part through the generosity of Agnes Gund, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, 17 March to 26 August 2018, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, installation view with works by Bruce Nauman, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, 17 March to 26 August 2018, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel, installation view with Bruce Nauman, Green Horses, 1988, Two-channel video installation (color, sound), one projection, two monitors, and chair, 59:40 min., continuous play, purchased jointly by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, with funds from the Bequest of Arthur B. Michael, by exchange; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with funds from the Director's Discretionary Fund and the Painting and Sculpture Committee, 2007, © Bruce Nauman / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel