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Indepth Arts News:
"Rodney Graham and Bruce Nauman: ...the nearest faraway place..."
2000-05-11 until 2000-06-18
Dia Center for the Arts
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
In cinema, the classic Western assumed an epic character.
Subsequently subject to decades of relentless appropriation by
high and low culture alike, this thematic has recently sparked
fresh and unexpected responses from Nauman and Graham,
responses that range from the dead-pan to the disarmingly
irreverent. Assembling new and recent works that reflect the
artists mutual interest in this enduring myth and its mutant
off-shoots, ...the nearest faraway place... explores a
seminal icon in the North American imaginary.
Born in 1949 in Masqui, British Columbia, Rodney Graham studied
art history at the University of British Columbia from 1968 to
1971 and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver from 1978 to
1979. Beginning with a series of solo shows in the late 1980s,
he has exhibited widely in North America and Europe, including
in Documenta IX, 1992, and in the Biennale of Venice, 1993
where he represented Canada. His most recent museum exhibition
was held at the Kunsthalle Vienna in Summer 1999. Graham lives
and works in Vancouver. Another body of work by Rodney Graham
related to the notion of the camera obscura is currently on
view at Dia in the exhibition Time Traced.
Bruce Nauman is one of the leading artists of our time. Born
in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Nauman received a masters
degree in fine arts from the University of California, Davis,
and in the late sixties began exhibiting his work
internationally. In 1972 a retrospective of his work was
organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, and over the last three decades
he has had numerous solo exhibitions at major museums in the
United States and Europe. A more recent retrospective
exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in
association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, DC, in 1994, traveled to other museums in Europe
and the United States. Nauman currently lives and works in New
Mexico.
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