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6/11/2012

Tony Oursler

313 Art Project, Seoul

313 Art Project, Seoul, is delighted to announce Tony Oursler's first solo show in Korea. Acknowledging his friendship with the godfather of video art, Nam June Paik, Oursler is known for his innovative combinations of media, sound, and performance in order to investigate the relationship between the individual and mass media system, which he has intensely worked with since the 1970s. Ourlser is also known as an innovative sculptor who continually fabricates works on paper to record his ideas, allowing for a free and imaginative process of connection to his subjects.

For his first solo show in Korea, Tony Oursler presents a diverse collection of new works including one large scale installation work, four micro works, and a suite of paintings with moving images. In a special window installation designed for 313 Art Project, he also presents three of his iconic and colorful "Splatter" paintings.

At the center of the exhibition is a large installation from Oursler's "Fugue" series. The term fugue refers to the looping nature of the narrative and also the compulsive nature of the interactions depicted. This installation combines colorful hand-blown glass objects with digital photographic prints, found objects and sculptured forms. Oursler affirmed, "The characters interact as though they embody layered patterns of thought. Each of these works is a contemplation on human relationships and the implicit existential struggle; I invite the viewer to lean in and decipher the shouts and murmurs as poetically kaleidoscopic interpersonal relationships unfolding on a very small scale. I am trying for an intimacy with the viewer; they are invited to assign causality and agency within these extruded chains of events. I hope they recognize a few of these situations."

Mass media is a popular subject of Oursler's works. Some of the themes explored here are the supernatural, methods of mass communication, and the history of development of media technology. Common elements include broadcast patterns and antennae pick-up diagrams as well as studies of projection devices with a natural way of working our ideas and allow for an immediate and personal relationship to the subject. Focusing on humankind's obsessive relationship to computers and other virtual platforms, his works are in microcosmic scene that convey obsession, escapism, isolation and sexual fetish. Oursler's unqiue medium combines glass, clay, steel and other raw materials with a synthesis of performance, language, and rhythmic editing. Through these various medium, the artist is able to express a human's wish to lose himself in a three-dimensional space.

Tony Oursler graduated from California Institute of the Art in 1979, and is currently based in New York. Oursler's works have been exhibited internationally including Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2012), Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2011), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), Adobe Museum of Digital Media (2010), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2009), Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Denmark (2006), Musee D'Orsay, Paris (2004), Kunsthaus, Aarhus, Denmark (2004) and many more. His group exhibitions include the Museum of Art and Design, New York (2012), Cincinnati Art Museum, U.S.A. (2011), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2010), the Whitney Museum of Art, New York (2010), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2008), and many more.

Opening: 7 November, 17–19h

313 Art Project
313 Dosan-Daero, Gangnam-gu- Seoul (Korea)
Hours: Mon 14–18h,Tue–Sat 11–18h
Free entry

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