Bruce Nauman (Visual Studies)

 Bruce Nauman is an American sculptor but his environments, films and videotapes have also been noted, he studied mathematics at university then whet on to study art, he had his first one man exhibition of sculptures in 1966, after that he moved city’s and started making work around the backs of objects but also moulded from parts of his body, as well as this he started creating works around many ideas, creating sculptures, films and performance pieces.

I like some of Naumans works, I think the sculptures have to be the pieces I like the most, particularly the one which is animals with legs sticking all over the place, it’s a really interesting pieces that I personally see as being about mankind’s treatment of animals and how were changing and altering them to for fill our needs though the process of breeding, but that’s just my opinion and I can’t be sure what it’s about. I also like the hand piece I again find it interesting, it looks like it could be the outside of a clock to me  or some sort of wheel, but I’m not sure what it’s about I just like the aesthetics of it.

Installation wise the two pieces I like the most are both hung which is an interesting thing, to suspend something in the air, that shouldn’t be there, it straight away puts you into a position of why is that there, as well as that he projects and uses screens, but I don’t know whether that just because there pictures but I don’t find that they look as good, I feel that videos and projects need a little something extra to make them more interesting, but again that could just be the pictures.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bruce-nauman-1691 (information and image recourse)