Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
dal 16/1/2007 al 14/4/2007
Segnalato da
16/1/2007
Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley
A Rose Has No Teeth. The show will provide new research and insight into a vital early stage of Nauman's career. Featured in the exhibition will be more than 100 works - several of which have never been exhibited before - including drawings, sculpture, neon reliefs, photographs, films, videos, sound and text works, installations, artist books, and ephemera. Curated by Constance Lewallen. Nauman is widely regarded as being among the most important living American artists. His work employs forms through which a series of themes and ideas consistently appear: the use of the body as a material; the integration of art and language; the relationship of art and architecture.
A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
January 17 through April 15, 2007
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
presents A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, a major exhibition of early
work by Bruce Nauman, one of the most influential artists working today. The
exhibition is the first ever to focus on the years Nauman lived in the San Francisco
Bay Area, and features the full range of his work from the 1960s, when he laid the
foundation for all of his subsequent, ground-breaking work in sculpture,
performance, and film and video art.
Curated by Constance Lewallen, BAM/PFA senior curator, the exhibition will provide
new research and insight into a vital early stage of Nauman's career. Featured in
the exhibition will be more than 100 works - several of which have never been
exhibited before - including drawings, sculpture, neon reliefs, photographs, films,
videos, sound and text works, installations, artist books, and ephemera. A Rose Has
No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s will be on view at BAM/PFA from Wednesday,
January 17 through Sunday, April 15, 2007, before touring Europe and the United
States.
Nauman is widely regarded as being among the most important living American artists.
His work employs forms that range from Post-Minimalism and Conceptual art to film
and video and installation art, through which a series of themes and ideas
consistently appear: the use of the body as a material; the integration of art and
language; the relationship of art and architecture; and such dichotomies as
concealment and revelation, interior and exterior, and positive and negative space,
among others.
Calling Nauman's work “more pertinent than ever," the New York Times recently
stated: “A pioneer in Post-Minimalist video and performance art, and a sculptor of
seemingly limitless versatility, Mr. Nauman has been famous and critically admired
since he arrived on the scene…and his work has exerted an important influence on
contemporary art ever since."
Film Series at the Pacific Film Archive
Bruce Nauman was not alone in his exploration of video as an artistic medium. In
conjunction with the exhibition, the Pacific Film Archive will present Then, Not
Nauman: Conceptualists of the Early Seventies, a series showcasing video works by
early-1970s Conceptual artists.
Catalogue
Published by University of California Press, A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in
the 1960s, the 256-page, illustrated catalogue, includes essays by Anne Wagner,
Robert Storr, Robert Riley; and Constance Lewallen. Contact the Museum Store at
(510) 642-1475 or visit the store online at
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/resources/museumstore_books/
Tour Schedule
BAM/PFA, January 17 - April 15, 2007
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, May 23 - September 9, 2007
The Menil Collection, October 12, 2007 - January 13, 2008.
Credit line
Major support for A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s comes from the
Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and other generous institutions and individuals.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA 94720
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu
BAM/PFA
2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley USA
Gallery Hours: Wednesday and Friday to Sunday, 11 to 5; Thursday 11 to 7.
Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Admission: 8 dollars/5/free