{"id":2417,"date":"2007-07-04T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2007\/07\/04\/bruce-nauman-i-love-neon\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:29","slug":"bruce-nauman-i-love-neon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/bruce-nauman-i-love-neon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Nauman, I love neon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/722303314\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1198\/722303314_2491602949.jpg\" width=\"460\" alt=\"115577.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.<\/i><br \/>\nBruce Nauman<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The first thing i saw entering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macm.org\/en\/expositions\/33.html\">Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a> were some flashy bright colored neon words &#8211; similar to what i have been playing around with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/566209348\/\">stencil<\/a> in the last 3 weeks. Stunning. <\/p>\n<p>Later on, came around more words, more social commentary passed on using commercial neon light, more vibrant luminous colors, then human neon shapes &#8211; and then the videos, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/image\/8993565\">Clown Torture installation<\/a> and others, with less and less common sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/722303746\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1069\/722303746_ebd65a22ec.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"500\" alt=\"One Hundred Live and Die\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Videos : see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdb.org\/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?BOUNCINGIN\">some of the videos which are part of the exhibition can be seen here<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>Remix :<br \/>\nsee people fooling around as Bruce Nauman on YouTube, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8heoCvTygDQ\">here<\/a>. An ode to Bruce Nauman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Bg9sC_smlA&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WeZuQvqkj10&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QMWUVwbUplY&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=on_n0aqHtO4&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mvT44pT_b0E\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. Bruce Nauman * The first thing i saw entering the Museum of Contemporary Art were some flashy bright colored neon words &#8211; similar to what i have been playing around with my stencil in the last 3 weeks. Stunning. Later on, came around more words,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/bruce-nauman-i-love-neon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bruce Nauman, I love neon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8487,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/8487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}