Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) On March 11, in cooperation with the Tate Modern in London and the Amsterdam Museum, the art museum presented the american artist Bruce Nauman's inland and the next large-scale institutional solo exhibition "Bruce Naumann: OK OK OK" officially opened at the art museum (Qianliang Hutong Pavilion). Unlike its previous research-based exhibitions, this exhibition, which revisits the artist's more than 50 years of artistic practice, focuses on and teases out his work on the performing arts, neon "identity", and sound and moving image art, and will be on view until June 12.
Exhibition Scene, Art Museum (Qianliang Hutong Pavilion), Beijing, 2022. Photo courtesy of the Art Museum, Photo by Yihan Zhao.
Born in Indiana in 1941, Bruce Naumann has held numerous important exhibitions at international authorities, including the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Pong Du Châteaux in Paris. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale six times and has been awarded the Golden Lion twice. Wang Zongfu, artistic director and curator of the art museum, said, "Bruce Naumann is an important object in the history of art development, he not only created new art categories, but also inspired generations of Chinese and international artists with his creative practice full of spiritual quality. From his early performances to his gallery installations, Naumann reminds us that the spirit and the body are intimately intertwined through emotions, and that the evoked sense of momentary loss of control is also an important experience of the class."
"Bruce Naumann: OK OK OK" brings together key works from Naumann's artistic career and presents his highly experimental artistic practice. In particular, the exhibition presents Naumán's Tate Turbine Commission Raw Materials (2004). This work selects 22 vocal passages from previous works as a vocal review of its previous four years of art. Naumann once explained, "If I'm an artist and I'm in the studio, then whatever I do in the studio must be art." ”
Naumann's work explores the potential of language and light. Image courtesy of Mumu Museum of Art
The exhibition will also present Naumann's influential neon "logos", which show how Naumann used the visual language of propaganda and consumerism to explore the potential of language and light. Works such as True Artists Help the World by Revealing Mysterious Truths [Window or Wall Signs], inspired by beer hanging in the artist's old studio (once a grocery store), is also Nauman's first neon work that incorporates Ben. He explains, "I had an idea that I could create art that would disappear — art that didn't look like art. In this case, your Fa discovers its existence until you consciously pay attention to it. In addition, two important works in the exhibition, Falling Under Immediate and Recorded Surveillance (1970) and The Gallery with Rooms with Changing Light (1971), reveal Naumann's interest in audience engagement and the relationship between physical state and physical space.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
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