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Omer Fast
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Reality Check
by Kate Skelly
Seung Woo Back, ZOE BELOFF, Thomas Demand, Mark Dion, Leandro Erlich, Omer Fast, Cao Fei, John Gerrard, Johan Grimonprez, Iris Haussler, Jonn Herschend, Pierre Huyghe, Bertrand Lavier, An-My Lê, Joel Lederer, Sharon Lockhart, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Eva and Franco Mattes, Yes Me, Jonathan Monk, Vik Muniz, Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, Dario Robleto, Eve Sussman, Mary Temple, Ai Weiwei at SITE Santa Fe
July 8th, 2012 - January 6th
Posted
8/15/12
From the flash and swagger of Vegas, to the manicured, lamppost-lined Main Street of Disneyland, we are proffered up a regular cultural diet of distorted, exaggerated versions of reality. The hyperreal seeps into even the most mundane crannies of our existence: our newspapers, breakfast cereal, tennis shoes, and coupon-clippings. Everywhere you turn there is something to buy, sniff, gnaw on, or run your finger along the sides of that has that certain smack of the real, that kind of chewy, overripe... [more]
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Omer Fast
by Nicola Bozzi
Omer Fast at Netherlands Media Art Institute - Montevideo/Time Based Arts
May 14th, 2011 - July 23rd, 2011
Posted
5/16/11
State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra recently announced some controversial cuts to cultural funding in the Netherlands. These dramatic slashes are likely to jeopardize the quality of the Dutch contemporary art offerings and downright kill artist grants and institutions like NIMk and SKOR. For this reason alone I could tell you to go see the Omer Fast show at the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst – if anything, to show some support – but an even better reason would be, well, that the... [more]
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A Stick that Bends Back
by David Yu
Omer Fast at South London Gallery
October 7th, 2009 - December 6th, 2009
Posted
11/11/09
The current show on view at the South London Gallery, Nostalgia, puts the viewer in an unsettling place. I wouldn’t necessarily classify this exhibition only as a video installation, but as a conceptual art experience that deeply explores narrative devices in relation to human cognizance. The work is unsettling in terms of the ease with which one is absorbed by the videos, falling quicly and effortlessly into Omer Fast’s cleverly edited video looped sequences.
One leaves completely g... [more]
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The Disturbing Truth of War
by Frances Guerin
Robert Capa, Paul Chan, Omer Fast, An-My Lê, Gerda Taro, Geert van Kesteren at Barbican Art Gallery
October 17th, 2008 - January 25th, 2009
Posted
1/11/09
The photography and video responses to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the ground floor of the Barbican Art Gallery are in provocative juxtaposition with the early twentieth-century photographic works of Robert Capa and his lover Gerda Taro in the upstairs section of the gallery.The works of four photographers/video makers: An-My Lê, Omar Fast, Geert van Kesteren, and Paul Chan see the wars through very different lenses, and consequently, have four very different visions of the mo... [more]
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Not So Fast
by Erik Wenzel
Omer Fast at Betty Rymer Gallery (SAIC)
October 24th, 2008 - January 3rd, 2009
Posted
12/15/08
One of the standout pieces at the 2008 Whitney Biennial was Omer Fast’s The Casting, 2007. A lot of people felt this way so it is no surprise it received the Bucksbaum Award, a sort of “first prize.” The Casting along with a new piece commissioned by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Manifesta (the European Biennial) are currently on view at SAIC’s Rymer (née Betty Rymer) Gallery.The Casting fictionalizes and merges two stories told to Fast by a sergeant in the U.S. Army. T... [more]
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