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Bruce Nauman & Mike Kelley. Mackenzie, Hannah, Louise and Sophie. Bruce Nauman. Born in 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Recognized since early 1970’s as one of the most innovative & provocative American contemporary artists.
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Bruce Nauman & Mike Kelley Mackenzie, Hannah, Louise and Sophie
Bruce Nauman • Born in 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. • Recognized since early 1970’s as one of the most innovative & provocative American contemporary artists. • Finds inspiration in the activities, speech and materials of everyday life.
Materials • Works in diverse mediums of sculpture, video, film, printmaking, performance and installation. • Sometimes works in comic, absurdist touches, employing jokes and word play. • Work is Characteristic of Post-minimalism in the way it blends ideas from conceptualism, minimalism, performance and installation.
Interview • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLWsrfa3tMU : the artist explains his need to experiment with new materials and forms on a daily basis.
“The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.” • Date:1967 • Medium:Neon • Dimensions:59 x 55 x 2 inches (149.9 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm)
Process Art Movement • Nauman’s practice led to him becoming a part of the Process Art Movement. • Process art is an artistic movement as well as a creative sentiment where the end product of art and craft, is not the principal focus. • The 'process' in process art refers to the process of the formation of art: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and moreover the initiation of actions and proceeding. • Process art is concerned with the actual doing and how actions can be defined as an actual work of art; seeing the art as pure human expression. • Process art often entails an inherent motivation, rationale, and intentionality. Therefore, art is viewed as a creative journey or process, rather than as a deliverable or end product.
"Walking in a Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square" • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDhuZ2Ya2wM : [1967-68] (first 30 seconds) one of his performances
Mike Kelley • Born in 1954, in Detroit, Michigan • Studied at California, Institute of the Arts • His work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. • He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler and John Miller.
Major Solo Exhibitions • Catholic Tastes," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1993); • "Mike Kelley," Museu d'art Contemporani, Barcelona (1997); "Framed and Framed, Test Room, Sublevel," MAGASIN, Grenoble (1999); • "The Uncanny," Tate Liverpool and Museum ModerneKunstStiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2004);
Interview • http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/doug-aitken-source-mike-kelley
Day is Done • Day Is Done, 2005; installation view, 2013. Courtesy of MoMA PS1
Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites, 1991/1999; installation view, 2013.