Bruce Nauman: Selected Works

Zwirner & Wirth's exhibition Bruce Nauman: Selected Works will examine important sculptures in bronze, wax and neon, related drawings, and video works, which signal Nauman's return to his figurative interests of the 60s, after a decade of exploring non-objective, installational art forms in the 70s.

Stemming from the "carousel" works of the 1980s, in Large Butt to Butt and Blue Cat, both made in 1989, Nauman explores the tension between socially acceptable forms of behavior and the violent results of sport hunting. Using taxadermic animal forms, which have been dismembered and reassembled, Nauman, comically and grotesquely, challenges conventional notions of human behavior, forcing the viewer to pose questions about our relationship to nature and how we justify animals as trophies versus animals as sustenance.

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