Make Me Think. Bruce Nauman - ACE368.5

Storr says that a large part of Nauman’s work is about watching people watching it. Sequences from video installation Clown Torture (1987). Some of the Fifteen Pairs of Hands in white bronze (1996). Simon quotes Nauman as regularly talking about "the tension between what’s revealed and what’s concealed", "the problem daily of how to proceed", and "how to proceed correctly", and comments on his precise way of working. Drawings of suspended chairs and other objects; actual chairs; Musical Chairs: Studio Version (1983). Chair from Untitled Interior Landscape (c.1983). Drawings. Simon comments that Musical Chairs is Nauman’s only specifically political work, inspired by reading Jacobo Timerman’s Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (1981). In other works, a chair can be an abstract form or even a musical chair. South America Triangle (1981). Lithographs No and No – State (both 1981). Shadow Puppet Spinning Head (1990). Shaking Hands (1985). Sketches for Shaking Hands.