Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Naumanis an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMultimedia Artist
Date of Birth6 December 1941
CountryUnited States of America
thinking influence embarrassing
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
interesting different kind
It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.
art art-is concerned
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
sometimes projects turns
And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.
anger frustration finished
Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
thinking drawing trying
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
heart listen-to-your-heart
I'll talk. You'll listen.
ideas video unusual
My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.
stupid hands interesting
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
knowing steps way
And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
gone done sometimes
Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.
art artist studios
If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.
artist world helping
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
people capacity aspect
My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.