Whilst the exhibition started in mid November, you have till January 9th to get yourself down to Baronian Francey in Brussels. The Mixed Media Artists latest show includes pieces created throughout 2009 in a number of mediums, and throughout a number of inspirations. The New York based artist, not in his 50’s is known best for his fractured-narrative handmade video tapes, each made up of elaborate sound tracks, painted sets, stop-action animation and optical special effects created by the artist.
“Tony Oursler uses modern technology to expose the nature of human perspective and a shifting inner self. In pieces like “Crystal Superstition Cave,” Oursler recalls and subverts Plato’s famous allegory which prizes philosophers, those who see a so-called Sun outside the darkness of human subjectivity. The Remote series flips a traditionally painter’s technique into this media artist’s plaything, itself commenting on technology’s interface with some essentially human fantasies and characteristics, genetic (in “Df-type”) and otherwise. Perspective is further twisted in pieces like “Viewer,” “Maximum Fix Threshold,” and, of course, “Fog or friends Saving the World with Mirrors,” which take the (pun implied) viewers on a trip through their own thresholds, as they see continually shifting things in projected pieces like the latter.”
“Caricature”, 2002 by Tony Oursler
Source: Art Observed
