Artist: Tony Tasset
Date: 2016
Museum: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane, United States)
Technique: Sculpture
Tony Tasset satirizes contemporary American culture while never losing sight of how much he loves it himself. Like 20th century artists Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, Tasset creates works—furniture paintings, signage, monuments—that seem so common that they hardly warrant another look. Yet it is exactly these simple things that inevitably influence the way we see the world. Tasset’s Arrow Sculpture points to American obsession with rankings, like the “10 Best Lists” that are sprinkled across the media landscape at the end of every year. As an artist in an enormously hierarchical, competitive art world, Tasset knows all too well that “one day you
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