{"id":40015,"date":"2026-01-08T00:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/?post_type=eventos&p=40015"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:34:32","slug":"oscar-murillo-el-pozo-de-agua","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/eventos\/oscar-murillo-el-pozo-de-agua\/","title":{"rendered":"oscar murillo: el pozo de agua"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201c<\/span>El pozo de agua is conceived as a reservoir of resources, experiences, and knowledge that moves between the intimate and the collective, the local and the global, the material and the immaterial.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Magali\u0301 Arriola, 2025<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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El aljibe \u2013 Agua de mi jardi\u0301n.<\/p>\n

All things of the land, culture, nutrients becoming, soil, knowledge, who we are… us!
\nSedimentation of time.
\nMountain stream! a river here weeps away grievous spirits, an infinite vitality, goodness, purity \u2013 it feeds, nurtures \u2013 deep, always mysterious arteries of life twenty feet below \u2013 my water well.
\nAgainst it lies the body \u2013 turbulent, lost \u2013 insatiable, disruptive always more \u2013
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\na field,
\nmai\u0301z! sugar,
\nbodies, spirits \u2013 scarred
\nUp my gaze. Rush in thought… us! the world.
\nBlack flakes of snow fall gently – green leaves gone! Scarred field
\nSoiled feet \u2013 land<\/p>\n

La Paila – Valle del Cauca, Colombia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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about the artist<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A focus on the social dimension that sits on the border between performance and events is also central to Murillo\u2019s practice. He often invites collaborators to participate in generative moments of collective energy: creating vast collaborative paintings with over 70,000 participants in Tate Modern\u2019s Turbine Hall, walking through New York or travelling between UK cities carrying mateos (traditional papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 figures made in Colombia), hosting a cleaners\u2019 party at the Serpentine Gallery, painting swathes of linen black in community centres, or holding a runway performance, open to the public, in a 14th century building in Venice. Each of these projects point to a perpetual curiosity into global social and economic exchange, community, and collaboration.<\/p>\n

Murillo\u2019s paintings spring from this same source of collectivity. Spanning the last 15 years, the bodies of work on view at Murillo\u2019s 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\u2019s\u00a0Frequencies<\/em>\u00a0archive, each work is then woven together by a combination of pigment, words and gesture. These ingredients are layered atop one another in a series of marks, traces and impressions often made through physically printing one painting onto another. The result is a series of binaries: line next to gesture, pigment next to canvas, blue next to red, abundance next to scarcity, intuition next to chance.<\/p>\n

These works echo the thread of participation that flows throughout Murillo\u2019s life and work, his paintings are an embodiment of the negotiation with material that Murillo invites people to take part in. And, in turn, an embodiment of our negotiation with life; how we approach and retreat, stumble and stride with no linearity.<\/p>\n

Recent solo presentations include\u00a0Esp\u00edritus en el pantano<\/em>, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City and Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey (2025);\u00a0The flooded garden<\/em>, Tate Modern, London (2024);\u00a0Masses<\/em>, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium (2024); and\u00a0Together in Our Spirits,<\/em>\u00a0Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2023-24). Other past solo exhibitions have been held at KM21, The Hague, Netherlands (2021-22), Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy (2021-22), Kettle\u2019s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2019); and Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2017-18). In 2019, Murillo was one of four artists to collectively win the prestigious Turner Prize. His works are held in numerous public collections\u00a0 including Tate, Kunstmuseum den Haag, Fondation Louis Vuitton and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n

Murillo earned his BFA at the University of Westminster in 2007 and his MFA from the Royal College of Art in 2012. In 2023 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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