Nessia Leonzini /// Bruce Nauman in action.

You don't forget a Nauman: the claustrophobic experience of feeling trapped in a corridor; the strangely disturbing sight of a fully made-up clown sitting on the toilet; the unsettling sound of someone yelling at you, telling you to get out of the room. These are images and sounds that won't go away.

The film and video of Bruce Nauman is not the only point of entry into his body of work, but it is a pretty good one. Nauman has worked in photography, performance, dance, installation, sculpture, drawing, prints, film, video and holography, and he makes every medium his own. The issues he addresses, such as the nature of art, life and death, absurdity, cruelty, censorship, violence, sex –the basic conditions of humankind– surface in his films and videos. Nauman travels between mediums with equal brilliance, transposing his ideas from one to another with the same originality and complexity. Yet some of his most iconic and celebrated pieces are, in fact, film and video installations, such as Art Make-Up, Live Taped Corridor, Clown Torture, Violent Incident, and Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage).