Presiding over the ensemble and generating the show's title was Nauman's tall
white wallboard Parallax Shell (1971/2000), with four peek - through seams and an open, irregular top, allowing shadows to continually reshape the interior as viewers awaited enlightenment, or simply light, from above.
Not exact matches
Wooden
wallboards, water - based paint, three video cameras, scanner, frame, five monitors, video recorder, video player, videotape, black and
white, silent, Dimensions variable (11 × 40 × 30 ft. as installed at Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1970).
The «skeletal» impulse of Adamo continues in the same gallery with Baby by Thomas Houseago, a
white figurative sculpture that is similarly rough and «unfinished», revealing in its layered materiality the structural underpinnings of synthetic
wallboard, wood, hemp, charcoal and steel rebar.