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The Arts Intel Report

Bruce Nauman: Neons, Corridors, Rooms

Bruce Nauman, One Hundred Live and Die, 1984.

Sept 15, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023
Via Chiese, 2, 20126 Milano MI, Italy

“If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art,” Bruce Nauman once mused. “At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product.” The New York Times has described Nauman as an “artist’s artist,” and his reach is wide. He’s worked in many mediums: wax casts, video installations, painting, sculpture. Once Nauman realized that art wasn’t the product of creation but the act of creation, he began dutifully recording himself while working. Ever since, he’s attended to the intricacies of the human experience, harnessing space, time, and language. This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Tate Modern and the Stedelijk Museum, looks at Nauman’s spatial and architectural explorations. —Elena Clavarino

© 2022 Bruce Nauman / SIAE. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York