Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire

Nunu Fine Art, New York is pleased to announce the exhibition Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire , which brings together three artists—Hans Bellmer, Bruce Nauman, and Rona Pondick—separated by generations and geographies, yet united by their engagement with the human body as material, and subject, and as a tool for experimentation and exploration of the implications of the psychic self. "Guided by Rona Pondick's selection of the artists' works, her own practice, and her deep, career-long engagement with the body, we are encouraged to look differently, ahistorically, and creatively at the juxtaposition of these artists, despite their temporal and geographical remove from one another." The exhibition will showcase vintage photographs from Bellmer's 1930s La Poupée series, photographic works and videos from the 1970s by Nauman, and a selection of Pondick's sculptures, primarily from the 1990s, to examine the desire to understand and shape the self; not by depicting the whole, but by disassembling its parts. For all these artists, the body is a vehicle for the exploration of psychological impulses, grounded in the materiality and color of their work, and in the spaces that the work occupies.