Tag: Bruce Nauman

Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire

Focusing on the work of Rona Pondick, Hans Bellmer and Bruce Nauman, this exhibition considers how bodies are seen and controlled, linking the artists through recurring motifs to explore the overlaps between desire, violence and dehumanisation
Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons

Shown in the context of the historic paintings of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Jones’s new paintings extend the iconography of the mouth in modern art
Luca Massimo Barbero – interview: ‘Fontana is a pioneer of conceptual art not just sculpture, a poetic response to more mental experimentation’

As the second in a trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to Lucio Fontana takes place at Hauser & Wirth New York, Luca Massimo Barbero, who curated it in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, explains why the artist is so important…
Exercising Freedom: Encounters with Art, Artists and Communities

Drawing on archival material, this fascinating exhibition looks at the Whitechapel Gallery’s pioneering role in setting up an education department and engaging with its local schools and communities
Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman’s work explores language and perception in a manner that is at times irksome or troubling, or both, but it is worth the effort
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts

This retrospective helps us understand Nauman as an artist who turns attention to himself, his body and his image as an object of exploration in its relation to time, place and history
Paul Maheke: ‘Michael Jackson is the reason I dance. And Felix Gonzalez-Torres is the reason I still believe in the political potency of making art’

Through installation, sound, film and dance, Paul Maheke’s work explores gender and racial stereotypes, articulating the restrictions placed around black, male and queer identities. For his first major solo show, at the Chisenhale Gallery, he has stepped out of the…
From the Vapor of Gasoline

This exhibition is a lively collection of works from a group of impressive and challenging artists, which together tell a powerful story of the social ills affecting the US from the Nixon years to the turn of the century
Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

This, the first show ever devoted to metalpoint, includes works by some of the greatest artists and is the finest exhibition dedicated to the history of drawing that we are likely to experience.
Dan Coombs: ‘Art is grounded in reaching for the real’

The artist talks about how he hoped his recent exhibition, Suspicion, would answer his 20-year quest to find out what narrative in painting is, his regret at the demise of life drawing, and teaching at a new private art school