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Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)
Details
BRUCE NAUMAN (B. 1941)
Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)
signed and numbered 'Bruce Nauman 14⁄40' (on the DVD)
single-channel video, transferred to DVD
duration: 59 minutes and 30 seconds
Executed in 1999. This work is number fourteen from an edition of forty.
Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)
signed and numbered 'Bruce Nauman 14⁄40' (on the DVD)
single-channel video, transferred to DVD
duration: 59 minutes and 30 seconds
Executed in 1999. This work is number fourteen from an edition of forty.
Provenance
Sperone Westwater, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000
Literature
J. Simon, "Richard Prince on Bruce Nauman," Frieze, no. 85, September 2004, pp. 136-137 (illustrated).
J. Kraynak, ed., Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 2003, p. 399.
P. Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, London and New York, 2014, pp. 234 and 237-239, fig. 236 (illustrated).
M. Herbert, "In the Good Corner: Bruce Nauman," ArtReview, 12 June 2018, online (illustrated).
J. Kraynak, ed., Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 2003, p. 399.
P. Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, London and New York, 2014, pp. 234 and 237-239, fig. 236 (illustrated).
M. Herbert, "In the Good Corner: Bruce Nauman," ArtReview, 12 June 2018, online (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor), May 2000 (another example exhibited).
New York, DIA Chelsea, Rodney Graham and Bruce Nauman:...The Nearest Faraway Place..., May 2000-June 2001, n.p. (another example exhibited).
Paris, Galerie Daniel Templon, Bruce Nauman: Setting a Good Corner, April-May 2002 (another example exhibited).
Fort Worth, Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, 110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, December 2002-March 2003, pp. 126 and 269 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Tate Liverpool, Bruce Nauman Make Me Think Me, May-August 2006, p. 85 (another example exhibited, illustrated, and illustrated on the front cover).
Basel, Schaulager Basel and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, March 2018-March 2019, pp. 268-269 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, DIA Chelsea, Rodney Graham and Bruce Nauman:...The Nearest Faraway Place..., May 2000-June 2001, n.p. (another example exhibited).
Paris, Galerie Daniel Templon, Bruce Nauman: Setting a Good Corner, April-May 2002 (another example exhibited).
Fort Worth, Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, 110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, December 2002-March 2003, pp. 126 and 269 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Tate Liverpool, Bruce Nauman Make Me Think Me, May-August 2006, p. 85 (another example exhibited, illustrated, and illustrated on the front cover).
Basel, Schaulager Basel and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, March 2018-March 2019, pp. 268-269 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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