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Lot 12 BRUCE NAUMAN (b. 1941)
Bruce Nauman (1941) 
Bruce Nauman
06.12.1941
USA
Bruce Nauman is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico.
Much of his work is characterized by an interest in language, often manifesting itself as visual puns.
Nauman's use of neon as a medium recurs in his works over the decades. He uses neon to make allusions to the numinous connotations of light, similar to Mario Merz, who used neon to bring new life to assemblages of mundane objects. Neon also connotes the public atmosphere by the means of advertising, and in his later works he uses it ironically with private, erotic imagery.
