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Oscar Murillo
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Description
- Oscar Murillo
- 145 hours I clocked this week
- oil stick, oil paint and dirt on canvas
- 265,5 by 205cm.; 104 1/2 by 80 3/4 in.
- Executed in 2013.
Catalogue Note
For Oscar Murillo, painting is not a troubled process that occurs in the isolation of a studio, far removed from the world. Painting is a kind of performance in which the artist leaves behind a trail in the real world. That is why Murillo believes there is a fluid
transition between video, painting and public participation. He likes to involve his family, friends and neighbors in the creative process, staging ‘family parties’: thrilling events full of movement and color, far away from the sterile atmosphere of the art world. He uses anything: sand from the yard, remnants of life, as well as debris left behind from events.
transition between video, painting and public participation. He likes to involve his family, friends and neighbors in the creative process, staging ‘family parties’: thrilling events full of movement and color, far away from the sterile atmosphere of the art world. He uses anything: sand from the yard, remnants of life, as well as debris left behind from events.
The personal reinterpreted - is this about a different understanding of the artwork? Or maybe a different function in a changing world that is becoming increasingly connected? To Murillo, making art is an action that is about communication, making contact with the street, the city, and the world. In the end what the viewer is left with is an image. As in much of the art from the 1950s and 60s, his work is a collection of marks, stains, impressions, or traces of movements once made. But what remains manifests the potential of an open world with visual power.