According to the 1994 catalogue raisonné of Nauman’s œuvre, Welcome (Shaking Hands) was the first of these figurative neon pieces – which resulted from a series of related recent drawings – to be fabricated. In concert with their extending hands, their penises flicker between flaccid and erect. The lighted tubes sequentially illuminate and then click off, animating the interaction between the men one moment their arms and hands dangle by their sides, in the next the same arms and hands are outstretched their torsos alternate between upright and slightly bowed with bent knees. 1, one of eighteen figurative neon works Bruce Nauman made in 1985, depicts outlines of (presumably) male bodies facing each other.
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