Bruce Nauman exhibition in London
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Nick
Feb 5, 2013, 5:49:01 PM2/5/13
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For lovers of neon art, Brucw Nauman has an (adult) exhibition on in London at Hauser & Wirth in Savile Row until March 13th...
http://m.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1647/bruce-nauman-mindfuck/view
Nick
Terry S
Feb 5, 2013, 6:15:50 PM2/5/13
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Sorry, I don't click on any link with "mindfuck" in it.
Adam Jacobs
Feb 5, 2013, 6:19:23 PM2/5/13
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Words to live by.
Nicholas Stock
Feb 5, 2013, 6:28:16 PM2/5/13
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Looks a little deliberately provocative...
Words to live by.
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NeonJohn
Feb 5, 2013, 7:05:37 PM2/5/13
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On 02/05/2013 06:15 PM, Terry S wrote:
> Sorry, I don't click on any link with "mindfuck" in it.
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Jeff Thomas
Feb 5, 2013, 7:14:21 PM2/5/13
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For lovers of neon art, Brucw Nauman has an (adult) exhibition on in London at Hauser & Wirth in Savile Row until March 13th...http://m.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1647/bruce-nauman-mindfuck/view
Nick
Anatomically correct neon...
Wow, "the wall of words" or whatever name given to the exhibit, required an extraordinary amount of time and effort.
Regards, Jeff
Wow, "the wall of words" or whatever name given to the exhibit, required an extraordinary amount of time and effort.
Regards, Jeff
Nick
Feb 6, 2013, 1:58:42 AM2/6/13
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That's artists for you. I did think about using tinyurl or similar as thus is generally a polite group, but some of his work is impressive - he is supposed to be one of the USA's better know living artists.
Many other artists have been deliberately provocative from ancient yimes - you don't have to like everything or even anything they create. Each to their own... I'll be wandering along to have a look as it's close to where I work and having played a lot of rugby, the occasional four letter word doesn't offend me that much !
Nick
Quixotic Nixotic
Feb 6, 2013, 4:38:17 AM2/6/13
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The neon men playing an upside down game of 'hide the sausage' is not much to my personal taste, as it were, but I appreciate that others may find it stimulating. I might see one aspect of it as a cynical appeal to those affluent 'dinkies', dual income - no kids, who are often art buyers.
I don't find that piece as shocking somehow as the piece I posted recently of the lady and the stars. The Bruce piece is hanging in a modern art gallery where perhaps one might expect to be shocked, whereas the other is hanging in a respectable dining establishment where people are eating and in full public view from outside.
When it comes to words and our reaction to the sound groupings which make them, they trigger responses in us and are, I suppose, only as powerful as we let them be.
An orthodox Mullah had his bushy beard cut every day. Every time the barber would say things like: 'What do you think about the infidels, Mullah?' or 'Have you seen what the infidels are saying about us today?' This went on and on until one day the Mullah exploded and said 'What is this unhealthy preoccupation you have with the infidels?'
The barber replied: 'The preoccupation is all yours, Mullah, because every time I say the word infidel your beard bristles, making it much easier for me to cut, which is the only reason I say it.'
Does the English word spunk mean to you a quality of mind showing enthusiasm, boldness, energy, courage, determination and motivation? My mother used that word reasonably often, mainly because she thought I had none of those attributes, but I never heard my mother swear once, in my whole life.
I hear that in the US it's almost impossible to be elected as a politician if you are an atheist. There is now a US movement to call atheists 'Bright', following the once-oppressed minority that have successfully annexed the word 'Gay'. If this idea takes hold, bright will become a loaded word, rarely to be used outside the context of atheism.
John S
I don't find that piece as shocking somehow as the piece I posted recently of the lady and the stars. The Bruce piece is hanging in a modern art gallery where perhaps one might expect to be shocked, whereas the other is hanging in a respectable dining establishment where people are eating and in full public view from outside.
When it comes to words and our reaction to the sound groupings which make them, they trigger responses in us and are, I suppose, only as powerful as we let them be.
An orthodox Mullah had his bushy beard cut every day. Every time the barber would say things like: 'What do you think about the infidels, Mullah?' or 'Have you seen what the infidels are saying about us today?' This went on and on until one day the Mullah exploded and said 'What is this unhealthy preoccupation you have with the infidels?'
The barber replied: 'The preoccupation is all yours, Mullah, because every time I say the word infidel your beard bristles, making it much easier for me to cut, which is the only reason I say it.'
Does the English word spunk mean to you a quality of mind showing enthusiasm, boldness, energy, courage, determination and motivation? My mother used that word reasonably often, mainly because she thought I had none of those attributes, but I never heard my mother swear once, in my whole life.
I hear that in the US it's almost impossible to be elected as a politician if you are an atheist. There is now a US movement to call atheists 'Bright', following the once-oppressed minority that have successfully annexed the word 'Gay'. If this idea takes hold, bright will become a loaded word, rarely to be used outside the context of atheism.
John S
Nick
Feb 6, 2013, 5:36:25 AM2/6/13
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Note to self - don't type on a small smart-phone keyboard on a moving train!
Anyway, for the sensitive souls, here's a tinyurl to the normal (non-mobile) web site:
One person's art is another's filth - ever it was thus, from the Stone Age fertility Goddesses, through Pompeii, Renaissance Art, the Impressionists, Francis Bacon etc.
As I'm not easily offended and prefer to make my own mind up, rather than be told by someone else what to think, I'll wander off down there later this week. Should be fun!
Nick
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Feb 6, 2013, 4:26:24 PM2/6/13
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Perfect!
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