Oscar Murillo: work
Texts by Liam Gillick, Nicola Lees, and Jonathan P. Watts. Interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist
This volume documents the first U.S. solo exhibition of Colombian-born, London-based artist Oscar Murillo (born 1986), held at the Rubell Family Collection in Florida in 2013. Over the course of a five-week residency in the summer of 2012, Murillo took over a 60-foot space at the Rubell, as well as its sculpture garden, to create 32 works, including five massive paintings, all of which are reproduced here. These works were informed by Murillo’s exposure to Miami’s Latin culture, as well as a weekend visit to his native Colombia and the gigantic proportions of the exhibition space itself. Two of the largest works are abstract; three are inscribed with words evoking colonial and/or Western appropriation (“mango,” “chorizo” and “yoga”); all display the heavily worked surfaces for which Murillo is well known. Also included here is photo documentation of the exhibition’s preparation and an interview with the artist.
Publisher: Rubell Family Collection
Artists: Oscar Murillo
Contributors: Liam Gillick, Nicola Lees, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jonathan P. Watts
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 8 x 10 1/4 in (20.3 x 26 cm)
Pages: 112
Reproductions: 56 color
ISBN: 9780982119587
Retail: $25 US & Canada | £15 | €20
Status: Out Of Print
Oscar Murillo
Oscar Murillo’s practice is closely connected to a notion of community stemming from his cross-cultural ties to diverse cities and places in which he travels and works, and Colombia, where he was born in 1986. He addresses the conditions of display in the contemporary art world by engaging with a series of opposites—including work and play, production and consumption, and originality and appropriation. Murillo is widely recognized for his large-scale paintings that imply action, performance, and chaos, but are in fact methodically composed of rough-hewn, stitched canvases, which often incorporate fragments of text as well as studio debris such as dirt and dust. His works and projects have been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions worldwide.
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