Synopses & Reviews
This book presents a new and spectacular work by the most innovative of America’s contemporary artists: Bruce Nauman’s installation “One Hundred Fish Fountain.” Ninety-seven bronze fish are attached to a steel frame and connected by numerous hoses to pumps, so that the fish suck in and spew out water.
Synopsis
Spectacular fountain by the most innovative of America's contemporary artists
About the Author
Born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bruce Nauman has been recognized since the early 1970s as one of the most innovative and provocative of America's contemporary artists. Nauman finds inspiration in the activities, speech, and materials of everyday life and works in the diverse mediums of sculpture, video, film, printmaking, performance, and installation. Dr Veit Görner, born in Munich in 1953, has been director of the kestnergesellschaft in Hannover since 2003. He lives in Hannover and Stuttgart.Görner, has organised extensive solo exhibitions - often for the first time in Germany - with the following internationally renowned artists, among others:Gary Hume, Cindy Sherman, Miquel Barceló, Fischli and Weiss, Anton Corbijn, Candida Höfer. Curator at the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Germany.