Bruce Nauman, Mean Clown Welcome, 1985. Tubes au néon montés sur monolithe de métal. Collection Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection, Cologne. Avec l'aimable permission de la Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. ©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007).

MONTREAL, CANADA.- Bruce Nauman’s whole body of work raises incisive existential questions related to life and death, love and hate, pleasure and pain—the very words he uses in the title of his neon work Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain. In a Québec and Canadian first, the Musée d’art contemporain presents the exhibition Bruce Nauman through September 3, 2007.
American artist Bruce Nauman is a leading figure in contemporary art. Celebrated as one of the greatest living artists by ArtNews magazine, and as one of the world’s 100 most significant personalities by Esquire and Time magazines, Nauman has had a major influence on succeeding generations of artists for more than 40 years.
Notions of body and identity, the role of language, the phenomena of spatial awareness, and artistic process and viewer participation are recurring themes in Nauman’s art. Following a rigorous, innovative approach, he explores various means of expression—neon, sculpture, film, video, performance, drawing—and is considered one of the pioneers of installation. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20416