Tony Oursler
dal 27/2/2009 al 10/4/2009
Segnalato da
27/2/2009
Tony Oursler
Metro Pictures, New York
Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards. The artist presents a variety of new works that take on technology, obsessive desires, phobias, socially acceptable addiction, and self-help culture. Large works feature Pop-inspired, outsized sculptural versions of everyday objects. Oursler has been a pioneer of new media art since the mid-1970s, known for his works combining spoken text, moving image and sculptural objects.
Metro Pictures will present an exhibition of new work by Tony Oursler February 28 – April 11, 2009. Oursler has been a pioneer of new media art since the mid-1970s, known for his video and installation works combining spoken text, moving image and sculptural objects. For this show, Oursler will present a variety of new works that take on technology, obsessive desires, phobias, socially acceptable addiction, and self-help culture. Large works feature Pop-inspired, outsized sculptural versions of everyday objects. They include an 8-foot long five-dollar bill with an eerily animated Abe Lincoln, a bottle featuring the artist as a modern-day genie, an enormous cell phone spewing disjointed snippets of conversations and a group of stark white columns transformed into a forest of smoldering cigarettes.
These will be joined with a series of miniature architectural-model tableaux illuminated with projected performers that enact scripted existential dramas. Wall pieces that combine video and painting are inspired by image juxtapositions from internet searches and browser windows.
Tony Oursler lives and works in New York and has had numerous project and survey exhibitions in institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Musée de Jeu de Paume, Paris. He will present a show of new work at the Kunsthaus Bregenz later this year.
Please direct press inquiries to James Woodward at James@metropictures.com or at 212-206-7100
The exhibition will be open for viewing Saturday, February 28.
Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street - New York
Gallery hours: 10-6 pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Free admission