Kim Light/ LightBox is pleased to announce an exhibition of Bruce Nauman: Performances from the 1960’s on Film and Video. Nauman’s early performances questioned many established notions of the art object. By making his body the subject and object, he began to collapse the space between concept, process, and product. The work became inseparable from its maker.

This exhibition includes Art Make Up, Bouncing Two Balls between the Floor and Ceiling with Changing Rhythms, Violin #1 (Playing the Violin As Fast As I Can), Pacing Upside Down, Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk), and Stamping in the Studio. All six pieces were originally performed in a private studio and exhibited as films or videos. In these performances, Nauman emphasizes casual activities such as walking. The actions are repeated to draw the viewer into tightly constructed rhythms. Through repetition, the casual is exposed as premeditated. Footsteps become aesthetic.

By representing these durational works as films and videos that infinitely loop, Nauman slows the pace of the viewer and turns action into sculpture. He brought the skepticism that began to surround art and object making to the body itself.

Bruce Nauman is an internationally renowned artist still working in video, film, and sculpture. A Rose Has No Teeth, a recent retrospective of his early works, has been shown at the Berkeley Museum of Art in Berkley, California, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Torino, Italy. He has earned such prestigious awards at the the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale, membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Aldrich Prize, and the Max Beckmann Prize. Bruce Nauman is represented by Sperone Westwater, New York