"Naumanâs attack, far more deadly than anti-formâbecause it is about a cooling from which nothing will be able to extricate itself in the guise of whatever articulationâis an attack made in the very name of death, or to use another term, entropy. And for this reason, the ambiguity that grips these residues of Naumanâs casts of interstitial space, the sense, that is, that they are object-like, but that without the title attached to them like an absurd label, one has no idea of what they are, even of what general species of object they might belong to, seems particularly fitting. It is as though the congealing of space into this rigidly entropic condition also strips it of any means of being âlikeâ anything. If the constant utilitarian character of Minimalist objectsâthey are âlikeâ boxes, benches, portals, etc.âor the more evocative turn of process works, continued to operate along the condition of form, which is that, having an identity, it be meaningful, it is the ultimate character of entropy, Naumanâs casts force us to realize, that it congeal the possibilities of meaning as well. Which is to say that this conception of entropy, as a force that sucks out all the intervals between points of space, not only understands the âBrownian movementâ of molecular agitation as slowed to a stop, but also imagines the eradication of those distances that regulate the grid of oppositions, or differences, necessary to the production of meaning. "
It is so interesting how Nauman takes spaces that no one really thinks about or pays attention to and brings them into the spotlight. He really touches on the subject of deconstruction and categorization. Things and spaces that don't really fit into the box. He breaks away from the standard of minimalist art and reconstructs it into a strange and unique form of minimalism.
