Projetor
Oi Futuro | Rua Dois de Dezembro 63, Catete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nov. 23 - Feb. 9, 2010
"Projetor" marks Ourslers first large-scale, solo exhibition in South America. It is a wide-ranging and concise survey show curated by Paulo Venancio Filho. It features key installations of projected works; such as Judy (1994), an archive of videotapes from 1977 to the late nineties, as well as a number of drawings and paintings.
The exhibition also includes an outdoor, Portuguese video projection installed on a building facade in the neighborhood of Ipanema.
This exhibition will tour to Sao Paolo in mid-2011, and a third TBA location. A bilingual book will be published in conjunction.
Tony Oursler was born in new york in 1957. He completed a BA in fine arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California in 1979. His art covers a range of mediums working with video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. Oursler's work has been exhibited in prestigious institutions including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Documenta VIII, IX, Kassel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Skulptur Projekte, Munster, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, the tate, Liverpool. The artist currently lives and works in New York City.