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Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941)
Spinning Spheres, 1970
The film installation Spinning Spheres is one of sixteen architectural installations Bruce Nauman made in 1970 in which he attempted to upset the viewer's perception of physical space. In Spinning Spheres, four large-scale film projections show a small steel ball, placed on a glass plate in a white box, spinning fast for three minutes. Every time the ball comes to a halt, an image of the white cube in which it was placed can be seen reflected faintly in the spinning sphere's surface. Spinning Spheres demonstrates Nauman's interest in using repetition and ambiguity to create a new sculptural language. Optical perception is explored through altering the parameters of physical space by erasing any referents to gravity and scale.
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About Bruce Nauman
Born in 1941, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Lives in Galisteo, New Mexico
Bruce Nauman is recognized internationally as one of the most significant contemporary artists. Although he began his career as a painter, Nauman now works with sculpture, video, film, printmaking, performance, and installation. His work often concentrates on a progression or an action, contemplating how that progression becomes a work of art. In numerous works, Nauman ponders the realities of the human cycle of life and death.
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Dan Graham (American, born 1942)
Helix/Spiral, 1973
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