Bruce Nauman Walk With Contrapposto. A partire dagli anni sessanta fino a oggi, nauman ha esplorato linguaggi artistici diversi, dalla fotografia alla performance, dalla scultura al video, sperimentandone le potenzialità concettuali e indagando. The museum of contemporary art, los angeles.
Take, for example, bruce nauman’s video walk with contrapposto (1968). 1968, 60 min, b&w, sound. Contrapposto studies, curated by carlos basualdo, the keith l.
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Focusing on the american artist’s performative contrapposto studies , bruce nauman’s new show at punta della dogana, venice, gives new meaning to body language. In bruce nauman’s video walk with contrapposto (1968), the artist laboriously traverses a narrow passageway while maintaining the contrapposto stance. “walks in walks out”, 2015;
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In the latter he strutted within a narrow corridor he had constructed, exaggerating the contrapposto pose of classical sculptures. From the 1960s to today, bruce nauman has constantly experimented with. Bruce nauman was awarded the golden lion at the venice biennale in 2009.
1968, 60 Min, B&W, Sound.
In this position, one knee is bent, and weight is shifted to the opposing hip. In this videotape nauman attempted to maintain the contrapposto pose associated with classical and renaissance sculpture while walking down a long, narrow corridor of his own design. American artist bruce nauman (born 1941) explores this ancient artistic concept with his most recent project, in which he revisits his 1968 video piece walk with.
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In walking the line (2019) [pictured], nauman further builds on a longtime series begun in the late 1960s with the release of his seminal short film walk with contrapposto (1968) , for which he filmed himself. The sperone westwater gallery in new york, which has represented the artist since 1975, will present a complementary new work by nauman, contrapposto studies, i through vii, from september 10 until october 29. In walk with contrapposto, the camera’s perspective is fixed at the end of a narrowly constructed corridor.nauman moves through the space, striking poses with each step.
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The exhibition in venice is focused on a series of recent video installation that nauman has developed in the last five years and are related to a single channel video from 1968, “walk with contrapposto.”the show includes a comprehensive survey of that series along with a number of earlier performances, installations and videos that provide the overall context for the recent work. One of his most recent works, contrapposto studies, i through vii (2016), investigates sound and video by depicting nauman striking a contrapposto pose. He was part of a new generation of artists whose process was driven by concepts, materials, and situations.
