Prada Foundation Presents: “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013”
27 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Curated by Germano Celant in dialogue with Thomas Demand and Rem Koolhaas.
Tag: Bruce Nauman
Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell
12 April 2013 • Mark Westall
With her new London exhibition featuring casts of the common garden shed, the artworld veteran makes us slow down our thoughts and attend to the world’s smallest details
Artist Bruce Nauman’s carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind
31 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brutal yet beautiful, a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London gives Nauman’s artworks a psychoanalytic twist
Bruce Nauman mindfuck Private view Tuesday 29th January 2013
29 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The exhibition features a rigorous selection of works from throughout Nauman’s career, with a particular emphasis on his iconic neon sculptures and installations.
Opening Tonight : Astrid Klein La Société du Spectacle at Sprüth Magers Berlin
25 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The artist’s textual sources, in addition to her own texts, reflect a preoccupation with literary, philosophical and scientific writings, and are incorporated in the ‘Schriftbilder’..
FAD interview with Philip Larratt- Smith curator of the Bruce Nauman Show mindfuck
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The selection of work in Bruce Nauman / mindfuck brings together neon works that deal with language and represent the cerebral and intellectual side of Nauman’s art, and works of installation that foreground the physical and experiential dimension of his production.
PREVIEW : Bruce Nauman / mindfuck opening Tuesday 29th January
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The experience of certain works by Nauman approximates a state of trauma, equivalent to the conversion symptoms of the hysteric, to the utterances of the psychotic, to the repetition compulsion tied to the death drive, to the reprimands of the superego, to good and bad internal objects, and to the logic of dreams.
Bruce Nauman / mindfuck
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The exhibition’s title, ‘mindfuck’, is a slang term that may be used as both a noun and verb, situation and action.
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review
23 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
PREVIEW: Bruce Nauman / mindfuck Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith
17 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The exhibition’s title, ‘mindfuck’, is a slang term that may be used as both a noun and verb, situation and action. It can mean to brainwash or manipulate someone, or describe a distressing situation or incomprehensible event.
Andrew Gannon Catlin Guide artist preview number 3
13 December 2012 • Mark Westall
“It’s like you’re a shit David Blaine.”
WIN: Freedom not Genius – Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection we have TEN copies for you to WIN.
30 November 2012 • Mark Westall
WIN: About Freedom Not Genius a book about Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection.
A Bigger Splash: Painting after performance – review
18 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
One Hundred Fish Fountain by Bruce Nauman at Gagosian Gallery New York Art Opening Monday July 30th 2012
27 July 2012 • Mark Westall
As the title states, One Hundred Fish Fountain (2005) comprises nearly as many hollow bronze fish, cast from nature and suspended in the air on wires, as if swimming in deep water.
Let’s hear it for Bruce Nauman, sculptor of sound
30 June 2012 • Mark Westall
In his new sound art installation, Days, at the ICA, Nauman sculpts the space with voices, giving sound a physicality that will open your ears to a whole new world of noise
Terry Smith: COMBINE at V22 Workspace Friday 22nd June 2012
21 June 2012 • Mark Westall
COMBINE : LIVE PERFORMANCE at V22 WORKSPACE F-BLOCK The Biscuit Factory 100 Clements Road London SE16 4DG
Mira Calix – Nothing Is Set In Stone: An immersive art and music installation for London 2012
18 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Mira Calix’s Nothing is Set in Stone is a new immersive art installation, a musical composition housed within a stone sculpture at Fairlop Waters in Redbridge.
Bruce Nauman: ‘Days’ at The ICA from Tuesday 19th June 2012
18 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Bruce Nauman is one of the most influential artists of our time and we’re delighted to welcome the seminal work ‘Days’ to the UK.
This week’s new exhibitions
16 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Anri Sala | Fiona Crisp | Jini Rawlings | Tony Cragg, David Brooks | Liam Spencer | Bruce Nauman | Joe Hesketh | Yoko Ono
GOSEE: Gavin & Turk at Ben Brown Fine Arts
10 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Throughout 25 years of artwork, Turk has questioned authorship, identity and the handmade
Neon: 100 years of the greatest light show on earth
31 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Peter Conrad celebrates a century of the medium that sells the raffish charms of America and has inspired film-makers and artists, from Hitchcock and Coppola to Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin
VIDEO: Dirt at The Wellcome Collection On NOW
24 March 2011 • Mark Westall
‘Dirt’ will reveal the fascinating world of filth that remains one of the very last taboos. Our major new exhibition… Read More
Dirt: the Filthy Reality of Everyday Life at Wellcome Collection from 24 March 2011
24 January 2011 • Mark Westall
Bringing together around 200 artefacts spanning visual art, documentary photography, cultural ephemera, scientific artefacts, film and literature, the exhibition uncovers a rich history of disgust and delight in the grimy truths and dirty secrets of our past, and points to the uncertain future of filth, which poses a significant risk to our health but is also vital to our existence.
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action Group Show at White Cube Private View Wednesday 7th July 2010
7 July 2010 • Mark Westall
© bpk / Zentralarchiv, SMB Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action. Looking at the pivotal role of drawing in current practice,… Read More