Artist field note

Bruce Nauman

The studio as a laboratory for discomfort.

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Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square by Bruce Nauman — Example from the series
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Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square

1967-68

A basic walk becomes absurdly deliberate. If the artist is in the studio, Nauman asks, can whatever he does there be art?

The five in one idea

Nauman makes repetition expose the strangeness hidden inside ordinary movement, language and space.