First Hologram Series: Making Faces (D)

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© Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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© Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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© Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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© Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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First Hologram Series: Making Faces (D)

1968
Installation Art
Holographic image on glass
each: 8 × 10 × 1/4 in. (20.3 × 25.4 × 0.64 cm)
Gift of Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza di Biumo in honor of the museum's 50th anniversary (M.2015.103.1.1-.2)
Contemporary Art
Not currently on public view

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Bruce Nauman has said that “if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.” In the late 1960s, he made two series of self-portrait holograms that play...
Bruce Nauman has said that “if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.” In the late 1960s, he made two series of self-portrait holograms that play with the notion of artistic gesture, including First Hologram Series: Making Faces. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl described his experience on encountering these holograms: “One approached in semi-darkness a tilted plane of frosted glass on a stand and—voilà!—there was Nauman, seen in close-up as if through a green-tinted window or the glass wall of an aquarium.… Moving one’s head changed the vantage point: the illusion was spookily perfect.”

Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
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Bibliography

  • Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.
  • Salvesen, Britt. 3D: Double Vision. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.