Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi
Oscar Tuazon
Combining natural and artificial elements, Oscar Tuazon creates works that recall both American Minimalism, the aesthetics of DIY,and vernacular architecture.
OSCAR TUAZON
Steel, plywood, oven, 2011-2012
Steel, plywood, oven, electric material
cm 240 x 188 x 108,5
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
Combining natural and artificial elements, Oscar Tuazon creates works that recall both American Minimalism, the aesthetics of DIY, and vernacular architecture. Built on unstable equilibria, combinations of elements that make up his sculptures are often the result of a path halfway between sculpture and architecture, in which objects of consumption and their potential are questioned. At the Strozzina, Tuazon presents a work in which an item of daily use is inserted into an evolving modular structure. The artist’s works are instable structures, critical constructions through which he searches for an intermediate dimension between sculpture and installation.
Oscar Tuazon was born in 1975 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA. His solo exhibitions include: Oscar Tuazon. Alone in an EmptyRoom, Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2014); Sensory Spaces 1, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2013); Oscar Tuazon, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva (2012); Die, Power Station, Dallas (2011); My Mistake, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2010). Among his group exhibitions we note: 356Sculptures, 356 Mission, Los Angeles (2013); Riotous Baroque, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich(2012); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); The Language of Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2011); ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations, 54.Venice Biennale, Venice (2011).
