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Tony Tasset has become renowned for creating work that satirizes our culture of exhibition and display.
His work engages with the principle that the formation and understanding of our history is crucially affected by the manner in which our most esteemed objects are displayed and how our most cherished narratives are told— an approach that harkens McLuhan’s axiom “the medium is the message.” His sculp- tures tap into a tradition of amusement and advertising culture considered unique to the States. These pieces are presented within the context of fine art, a synthesis which equates dichotomous ends of the traditional cultural evaluative spectrum.
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Snakes (a monument to the eternal battle between truth and fiction) plush toy snakes, rubber toy snakes, taxidermied snakes, aluminum wire 24'' x 36'' x 36''
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