Ouch, 2005 - Tony Oursler
About the Work
About Ouch
In Ouch, Tony Oursler paints and collages a pool of bloody red and fleshy facial features. Oursler is interested in the fragmentation of both the human body and psyche and is fascinated with how psychological conditions like Multiple Personality Disorder ...Read More
In Ouch, Tony Oursler paints and collages a pool of bloody red and fleshy facial features. Oursler is interested in the fragmentation of both the human body and psyche and is fascinated with how psychological conditions like Multiple Personality Disorder can be translated into a physical reality. Using fragmented images of different eyes and a mouth, Oursler paints what could be lungs or a heart in the center to connect the parts of this collage.Read Less
About the Artist
About Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler works across a range of mediums: video, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting. Through technology, he explores the human psyche and its emotional disturbances ...Read More
Tony Oursler works across a range of mediums: video, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting. Through technology, he explores the human psyche and its emotional disturbances like obsession, isolation, sexual fetish, escapism, and the relationship with computers and virtual platforms that dominate our lives today.
In his most famous installations, Tony Oursler creates scenes of disfigured, immobile bodies sculpted from nylon with video projections of moving faces on their heads. In some cases, Oursler projects fragmented facial features onto walls and bulbous sculptures, creating an eerie juxtaposition of animate and inanimate figures. He often places decapitated heads in uncomfortable positions on the floor or installed alongside props as more faces projected onto the heads spew a narrative. Directly engaging and "trapping" the viewer is Oursler's primary concern in art-making. Read Less
In his most famous installations, Tony Oursler creates scenes of disfigured, immobile bodies sculpted from nylon with video projections of moving faces on their heads. In some cases, Oursler projects fragmented facial features onto walls and bulbous sculptures, creating an eerie juxtaposition of animate and inanimate figures. He often places decapitated heads in uncomfortable positions on the floor or installed alongside props as more faces projected onto the heads spew a narrative. Directly engaging and "trapping" the viewer is Oursler's primary concern in art-making. Read Less
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Description
Acrylic paint and collage on paper.Authentication
Signed and dated by the artist on recto.Dimensions
This work comes in a frame measuring 15" x 12".Shipping
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