Bruce Nauman
Untitled, 1987
Cast iron beams with grit blast finish
Two parts;
5 1/8 x 86 1/2 x 5 in each (13.02 x 219.71 x 12.7 cm each)
87 3/8 x 85 3/8 in installed (222 x 217 cm installed)
5 1/8 x 86 1/2 x 5 in each (13.02 x 219.71 x 12.7 cm each)
87 3/8 x 85 3/8 in installed (222 x 217 cm installed)
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‘Here, two cast iron bars (with grit-blast finish) transform along their lengths from square shaped at one end to circular in the centre to triangular at the opposite end. These...
‘Here, two cast iron bars (with grit-blast finish) transform along their lengths from square shaped at one end to circular in the centre to triangular at the opposite end. These are slipcased into two somewhat shorter tubes of the same changing shape. The two elements are then arranged in an X-configuration reminiscent of Nauman’s suspended sculptures with two crossed steel l-beams’
(N. Benezra, Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1994, p. 306).
(N. Benezra, Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1994, p. 306).
Exhibitions
New York, Castelli Graphics and the Lorence - Monk Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89, 1989 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 128). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Donald Young Gallery.New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Multiples, 1989, no. 175 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
New York, Hirschl and Adler Modern, Multiples, 1990 (another from the edition exhibited).
Berlin, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Bruce Nauman, 1996 (another from the edition exhibited).
Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Bruce Nauman: Dream Passage, 2010, no. 28 (illustrated in colour, p. 114).
Madrid, Galeria La Caja Negra, Bruce Nauman: Infrared Outtakes, Soft Ground Etchings, and Crossbeams, 2012 (another from the edition exhibited).
Literature
NN. Benezra, K. Halbreich, P. Schimmel, Bruce Nauman, Minneapolis 1987, no. 373 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 306).D. Buchholz, International Index of Multiples, Tokyo 1993 (another from the edition, p. 143).
N. Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1994, no. 373 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 306).