Binary function, Oscar Murillo’s first solo exhibition at David Zwirner, London, includes paintings, an installation and a new video by the London-based, Colombian artist. The video projection depicts a street scene in Murillo’s hometown of La Paila, Colombia, in which people are seen chatting, drinking and dancing to live music. Filmed by the artist on New Year’s Day, its footage shifts between documentary and experimental styles, using both wide-angle and detail shots that, at times, abstract the figures’ bodies into a chaotic arrangement of imagery, color and movement. On view are his renowned large-scale paintings, which incorporate materials that change and react over time, with canvases literally moved around the artist’s studio to accumulate sole imprints, fingerprints and dust. The exhibition continues a recent development within Murillo’s practice in which multimedia works are grouped together within clear plastic tray frames. Comprising wide-ranging imagery and materials, such as small-scale drawings, screen prints and the artist’s own travel photographs, these compositions vary in their degree of engagement with the processes of painting, drawing, screen printing and installation. A major new installation in the upper galleries comprises large, heavily painted black canvases – made of several sewn-together fragments and reminiscent of leather hides – suspended across the gallery, piled on top of one another on steel pallets, and also strewn across tables.
Binary function by Oscar Murillo
David Zwirner, London
Through November 20
David Zwirner, London
Through November 20
Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London
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