Omer Fast
Omer Fast was born 1972 BirthIsrael.
Won the Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst 2009 (Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art). The award (which is often referred to as the Turner Prize of Germany) boasts a cash prize of nearly seventy-four thousand dollars and an exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof.
Categories: Installation art Multimedia
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Omer Fast explores video and television as both medium and subject matter, creating video installations for exhibition spaces as well as developing public art projects that extend into the private space of the home. For his 2-channel video installation “Glendive Foley” (2000), Fast juxtaposes views of houses in Glendive, Montana – the smallest television market in the United States – with multiplying portraits of himself producing a soundtrack for this footage with his mouth and hands. In “T3-AEON” (2000), the artist inserts voiceovers into the 1984 film Terminator, which the museum visitor must take home to view, in a situation directly referring to video rental…
Omer Fast’s video installation Glendive Foley utilizes images of the artists pilgrimage to the "country’s smallest television market", and self-produced sound effects to create a primal, suburban dialogue…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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