"OSCAR MURILLO (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) has developed a multifaceted and challenging practice that spans painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation. Through each body of work, the artist probes ideas of collectivity and shared culture, demonstrating a commitment to the power of material presence alongside complex meditations on contemporary society. A focus on the social dimension that sits on the border between performance and events is also central to Murillo's practice."
"Murillo's paintings spring from this same source of collectivity. Spanning the last 15 years, the bodies of work on view at Murillo's inaugural show with kurimanzutto gallery are composite grounds, not just in the literal sense, but conceptually too. Often made from pieces of canvas that have inhabited the studio over long periods of time or canvases from the artist's Frequencies archive, each work is then woven together by a combination of pigment, words and gesture."
Oscar Murillo combines painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation to investigate collectivity and shared culture. A persistent social dimension sits on the border between performance and events, inviting collaborators into collective moments: creating vast collaborative paintings with over 70,000 participants in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall; walking through New York and UK cities carrying mateos (traditional papier-mâché figures made in Colombia); hosting a cleaners' party at the Serpentine Gallery; painting swathes of linen black in community centres; and staging public runway performances in historic spaces. Murillo's paintings assemble long-used canvases and Frequencies archive materials, layering pigment, words and gesture through physical printing to produce binary tensions of abundance and scarcity, line and gesture, intuition and chance.
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