Drawing for Stadium Day

细节

Bruce Nauman (b. 1941)
Drawing for Stadium Day
signed and dated 'BNauman 83' (lower right)
watercolour and pencil on paper
38 1/8 x 50 1/8in. (96.9 x 127.3cm.)
Executed in 1983

来源

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987.

展览

Paris, Yvon Lambert, Bruce Nauman, April-May 1986.

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拍品专文

This drawing, pre-dating a model of the same subject, was built for a large-scale architectural sculpture proposed for the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. It was meant to be 20 meters long and embody the grandeur of a stadium with its monumental stair structure. "The space underneath its sloping, stepped sides was to be illuminated with yellow light. According to Nauman, the proposal was rejected for safety reasons; it was thought that the bleacherlike steps would be too inviting for climbing." (In: J. Simon (ed.) Bruce Nauman, exh. cat. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1994, p. 290.)