Gigantic eyes with television screens for pupils, a doll’s face in perpetual tears… Tony Ourler’s work is always as disturbing as it is fascinating. Through the images of his videos and installations – whether narrative or abstract – run the themes at the core of our society (alienation, media manipulation, a post-modern fragmented conciousness) as perceived through one of today’s most critical mind.
Such unprecedented work is now coming to Spain, after being in dozens of the world’s most pretigious art houses like the Smithsonian at Washington DC, MOMA at New York, or the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It will do so in a traveling exhibition where the Spanish viewer will have to chance to experience this selection of Ourlser’s best audiovisual work, designed to consistently disturb and fascinate the most eager minds.
Coming from a family of American writers and intellectuals, Tony Oursler (New York, 1957) has become an icon in the world of Modern Art thanks to his groundbreaking efforts to reconcile the most revolutionary technology with the most traditional creativity in the most universal language known to man: moving images.