![]() ![]() ![]() the unwavering blue light on the roof is constantly redefined and repurposed by the ever shifting natural daylight that enters from the opposite side. ![]() The piece was devised at a time when artists were attempting to reduce works to a bare minimumĪs visitors enter the room, they are forced to engage with the dramatic lighting that fills and animates the space. The installation was initially shown for only two weeksĪll images © bruce nauman 2016 | photos by peter malletīruce nauman’s ‘natural light, blue light room’ was originally exhibited 45 years ago and is one of the first examples of an architectural intervention specifically designed to disturb, unsettle and discomfit the viewer. installed at blain|southern gallery, the room serves as a petri dish within which multiple gradients of two warring light sources clash, combine and confuse. a figurehead of the minimal aesthetic, the installation is representative of the gradual desertion of tangible ‘art objects’ of the time, and the journey towards conceptual art and contemporary performance art. Bruce nauman’s landmark installation ‘natural light, blue light room’ is at blain|southern gallery in london, marking its first showing since its initial presentation in 1971. the exhibition - coinciding with the city’s frieze art fair - will run from now until november 12th, 2016. ![]()
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