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Indepth Arts News:
"Encounter: Bruce Nauman and Kcho"
1999-10-31 until 1999-11-28
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL,
USA United States of America
This exhibition, the first in a series that pairs
works from the MCA Collection with pieces by
contemporary artists who may be unfamiliar to
Chicago audiences, brings together works by
Bruce Nauman (American, b. 1941) and Kcho
(Cuban, b. 1970). Since the mid-1960s,
Nauman has pursued ideas of self-definition
through a witty assault on traditional notions of
artmaking. His claustrophobic sculptures Three
Dead-End Adjacent Tunnels, Not Connected and
Rats and Bats (Learned Helplessness in Rats) II
create a sense of psychological isolation as they
explore the meaning of personal identity. Like
Nauman's works in this exhibition, Kcho's Lo
Mejor del Verano and Archipiélago en Mi
Pensamiento attest to the artist's consuming
interest in the idea of isolation. Having grown
up on an island off the coast of Cuba, Kcho
uses his sculptures to grapple with his country's
status as a land in isolation and constant flux.
While Kcho takes a melancholy, poetic approach
in his work, Nauman chooses a conceptual, or
idea-based, route as he addresses similarly
universal themes.
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