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Tony Oursler
March 27, 2008 by Sam K
Posted in Not Painting | Tagged Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, projection, Sculpture, tony oursler, Video | 10 Comments
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Sam, I have a question similar to the one that you asked me once before: why did you pick this image?
I don’t often have the urge to say things like, “hell, yes!” at museums, but I did at least once in front of a Tony Oursler sculpture/installation.
Because it’s recent work.
..and because it’s among the weirdest of the recent work.
To expand on the ‘weirdness’: it was among the most compositionally/sculpturally compelling, and it generates some of the most interesting/satisfying questions when I look at it.
I wonder what it makes Matt feel like shouting???
…holy salvador dali, batman, now that’s a reward!
Reminds me some of that painting Guston did of Nixon, dragging foot-in-cast.
…matt slyly subverts my attempt to turn him into Ricky Gervais’ character in Extras…
I have that reaction—that there’s a connection between Oursler and late Guston—also. Something about reducing the face to its component parts for unsettling effect.
Is that a wooden crutch? I understand its hard to find those around anymore.
It is kind of interesting how anachronistic a lot of this is—that crutch, the surrealist references are really specific, that milky light. It’s kind of a jumble of anachronisms, like older Cohen Bros. movies.
and, that big floating head somehow reminds me of those Dorothea Tannings where she’s got this girl dancing with a humungous shitsu.
i always really hated those paintings and i’m not entirely sure why.