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Bruce Nauman  born 1941

Bruce Nauman Three Dead End Adjacent Tunnels, Not Connected 1981
© ARS, NY and DACS, London 2002
Three Dead End Adjacent Tunnels, Not Connected  1981

Cast iron
displayed: 630 x 2860 x 2476 mm
sculpture

Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 1992

T06526
Nauman made a series of tunnel works in wood and plaster, which he subsequently cast in iron. In this work, three tunnels frustratingly fail to intersect and lead nowhere. Propped up on steel supports, they seem to float in space as if they existed in a parallel universe. The artist has commented 'I find triangular spaces really uncomfortable, disorientating kinds of spaces, not like a circle or a square that give you security.'
 (From the display caption August 2004)