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Oscar Murillo

<p><strong>Mesmerizing beauty, 2022</strong><br />Plastic chairs, timber, framed works on paper and canvas</p><p><strong>Arepas y Tamales, 2022</strong><br />Wearable sculptures<br />Not for sale</p><p>Rows of vacant monoblock garden chairs in their most classic off-white shade act as support for wooden batons to which small-format paintings are attached, giving them the appearance of protest placards. The famous, ubiquitous furniture item, presumably the world&#39;s most common plastic chair, appears in many of Murillo’s works and denotes a kind of informal, transient social gathering, a sense of intimate but fleeting community. Instead of political messages the placards are in fact small-format works with some of them originating from drawings the artist made during intercontinental flights. Protesting the protest, Murillo’s intervention thus speaks of a need for a more humble and quotidian sense of shared humanity, which at present our society is struggling to maintain.<br /> </p><p>In addition to the familial anti-protest, Murillo presents a new series of ‘wearable sculptures’ drawing on his long-term collaboration with school students, <em>Frequencies</em>.</p><p><em>Frequencies </em>is a global, collaborative project initiated by Murillo in 2013, which has seen blank artist canvas fixed to classroom desks in over 350 schools world-wide. Students aged 10-16 left their marks on the canvases over a period of six months, resulting in a monumental collection of over 40’000 individual examples. From these, Murillo collected groups of motifs which appear repeatedly – skulls, eyes, flags, trees – and turned them into textile patterns which were then used to create unique items of clothing. The student drawings symbolize, for the artist, a sense of renewal, purity, and of hope for the future, a latent sense of unity that might empower the wearer.<br /> </p><p>Oscar Murillo has turned the discarded, worn-out, repurposed or incidental into the center of his artistic practice. Using text, recycled materials, fragments and serendipitous findings, sometimes left on the floor to gather dirt and dust only to be repainted in his original scribbling, line-based style, the inventive workflow results in a unique tangibility of the process with which his works come into being.</p><p>Visit arepasytamales.com to learn more about this work.<br /> </p><p>All images: Courtesy the artist. Photos by Reinis Lismanis.</p>

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Taka Ishii Gallery, kurimanzutto, David Zwirner, Carlos/Ishikawa

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