Details
TONY OURSLER (B. 1957)
Eye for an Eye
fibreglass, DVD disc and LCD colour video projector
diameter: 578in. (15cm.)
installation dimensions variable
Executed in 1996
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York.
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in 1996).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
S. Lodi (ed.), Tony Oursler, Milan 1998 (another work from the series illustrated in colour pp. 36-37).
A. Bonito Oliva and D. Eccher (eds.), Appearance: Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Luigi Ontani, Andres Serrano, Pierre & Gilles, Tony Oursler, Milan 2000 (another work from the series illustrated in colour, pp. 90 and 94).
Exhibited
New York, Metro Pictures Gallery, Tony Oursler, 1996 (another from the series exhibited).
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Matthew Barney – Tony Oursler – Jeff Wall, 1996-1997 (another from the series exhibited).
Wellington, City Gallery Wellington, Tony Oursler: Videotapes, Dummies, Drawings, Photographs, Viruses, Light, Heads, Eyes, and CD-ROM, 1998 (others from the series exhibited; illustrated in colour pp. 80-85).
Massachusetts, Williams College of Art, Introjection: Tony Oursler mid-career survey 1976-1999, 1999 (another from the series exhibited and illustrated, pp. 69 and 71).
Paris, Cartier Foundation, Mirror Maze (Through Dead Eyes), 2003 (another from the series exhibited).
Siena, Palazzo delle Papesse, Guardami - Percezione del video, 2005-2006. (another from the series exhibited).
Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Tony Oursler, 2010-2011 (another from the series exhibited).
Auckland, Fox/Jensen, Sculpture, 2012 (another from the series exhibited).
Dusseldorf, Hans Meyer Gallery, Obscura, 2014 (another from the series exhibited).
Dornbirn, Kunstraum Dornbirn, SPECULAR, 2021 (another from the series exhibited).
FURTHER DETAILS
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Please note that an up-to-date projector and DVD player will be supplied with the work.
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