Tony Oursler

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Tony Oursler has used the medium of film to create his own unique sculptural aesthetic, taking the images out of the television box and making them function in three-dimensional space. A recurrent theme in Oursler's work is the way in which visual technologies influence and even modify our social and psychological selves. His practice continuously engages with popular culture and questions how systems of mechanical reproduction, like photography, film and television, have come to dictate not only the way we see the world, but also the ways that images are constructed. Ourlser's formal vocabulary is deceptively simple, employing objects of everyday life, both high and low, that range from kitsch to folk art, and investing them with a new aesthetic meaning. A key feature of his work is the ways in which the human body comes into play. On one level the body is employed in a very literal sense through the projection of fragmented and alienating body parts onto fibreglass forms. On another level the body functions through the encounter with the work. Oursler's scenarios constantly invoke the very human wish to lose oneself in fantasy.

Tony Oursler works and lives in New York, US

www.tonyoursler.com
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Tony Oursler Public Exhibitions

CURRENT

Tony Oursler: Face to Face
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
3 March - 29 July 2012
ARoS

PAST

Tony Oursler: Open Obscura
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea PAC, Milan
19 March - 12 June 2011
PAC

Spazio. The Scene and the Imaginary
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
30 May 2010 - 23 January 2011
MAXXI

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