Toronto Festival of Arts + Creativity: Luminato

Void or Everything Ever Wanted / Haze or Transparency with Friends and Colors / Flood or Fear with Bugs
5 - 28 June 2009 (11am each day)

Enter the surreal realm of one of the most controversial multi-media artists on the world scene today.

Blurring the boundaries between the organic and the artificial, the work of renowned New York artist Tony Oursler has awed and unsettled spectators in cities around the world.

He's perhaps best known for his use of video footage of human faces projected onto spheres, dolls and other three-dimensional surfaces. The results are riveting: sculptural objects that seem to be alive, returning your startled gaze as they mutter, twitch and scream. Psychological disorder, the relationship between mass media and the human mind, youth culture and wireless communication are among the themes evoked and explored in Oursler's vividly surreal imaginings.

Luminato and the Art Gallery of Ontario invite you to Grange Park to experience the sometimes disturbing, always compelling and utterly unforgettable world of this extraordinary artist.

"Oursler makes his viewers laugh and cry in the same gasp of amazement while leading them straight into the dark heart of human fragility." - Joyce Korotkin, Tema Celeste

Read "Tony Oursler's Fractured Narratives" from the Toronto Globe and Mail
Read the full press release
Grange Park and the Young Gallery, a free contemporary space
Dundas Street West & McCaul