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Bruce Nauman – Announcements
“The point where language starts to break down as a useful tool for communication is the same edge where poetry or art occurs.” —Bruce Nauman
Tai Kwun Contemporary is proud to present a major survey of the US-born artist Bruce Nauman, one of the most influential artists working in the present day. Known for his broad range of works made in a variety of media from sculpture, photography, and video, to neon, drawing, printmaking, and performance, Nauman is widely recognised and admired as an “Artist’s Artist”. Part of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s series of major exhibitions spotlighting pioneering artists of our time, Bruce Nauman will be on view to the public from May 15 to August 18, 2024.
Bruce Nauman at Tai Kwun Contemporary is the first major exhibition of Nauman’s in Hong Kong and features 35 works that traverse six decades of the artist’s career. The exhibition revisits fundamental elements ever-present in the artist’s oeuvre, and provides a unique opportunity to explore a group of key artworks by this legendary figure in contemporary art. The exhibition at Tai Kwun is organised with the support of Palazzo Grassi—Punta della Dogana, and is inspired by the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, curated by Carlos Basualdo and Caroline Bourgeois in 2021–2022 at Punta della Dogana in Venice.
Read more: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/604200/bruce-nauman/
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Sculptor Maya Lin Will Release Her First NFT Project, a Generative Art Series Based on the Root Systems of Trees, This Spring
In 2021, Maya Lin planted 49 Atlantic white cedar trees, each blighted by saltwater inundation, in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. Ghost Forest was the name of the project; it was, in typical Lin fashion, part sculpture and part memorial—a symbol of the power of the natural world and a reminder of its precarity in the face of climate calamity.
But while the rest of us were looking up at Lin’s forest, the artist found herself staring down, wondering about the activity of the trees below the soil’s surface. Now, she is going one step further to visualize her trees’ subterranean behavior—and she’s turning to the world of NFTs for the first time to do it.
