Oscar Murillo

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Oscar Murillo (2013)

Oscar Murillo (born February 1986 in the Valle del Cauca , Colombia ) is an artist based in London .

Life

Murillo grew up in the small Colombian town of La Paila . There Murillo's parents worked in a candy factory and in a sugar cane mill. When he was eleven, the family left Colombia and, like some relatives before them, moved to London. To finance his art studies, Murillo worked as a cleaner in London. In 2007 he received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Westminster , followed by his Master's from the Royal College of Art in 2012 .

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Murillo's work includes painting, sculpture , installation and performance. Many of his pictures are large-format and contain text fragments. Elements of South American culture (food, music, language, etc.) often find their way into Murillo's work.
Together with a foundation, Murillo has been running his global project "Frequencies" for several years with students and schools from almost two dozen countries, including Colombia, Israel and Ethiopia. There, school desks are covered with canvas, on which the 10 to 16 year old students leave their everyday traces - in the form of doodles, notes or dirt. The students know that they are part of a long-term art project and can leave any mark. With this project and the linen covers for the tables, Murillo was represented at the 2015 Venice Biennale .

In 2019 Murillo was nominated for the Turner Prize and was considered a co-favorite for the prestigious British art award. The nominated work consisted of life-size figures made of paper mache , which he called "Effigies". He installed these on pews with a view of the beautiful sea, which was covered by a black curtain. The "Effigies" are supposed to represent migrant workers whom Murillo sees as the "engine of this world". The artist also identifies himself with the working class. He placed his figures next to real travelers on the train from London to the exhibition site in Margate . The paper mache passengers were picked up at the Margate train station and pushed in wheelchairs across the promenade to the Turner Contemporary Museum . The decision by the Turner Prize jury to award the award to all four nominated artists in equal parts for the first time was considered a surprise. Murillo, Lawrence Abu Hamdan , Helen Cammock and Tai Shani had decided on this plan when they met for the first time at Turner Contemporary and asked the jury to jointly identify them as a "heterogeneous artist duo with a lot of immigrant backgrounds", "that emphasize the unity and the community" wanted to. The jury finally complied and the prize money of £ 40,000 was divided equally between the four artists.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013: If I was to draw a line, this journey started approximately 400km north of the equator , South London Gallery, London
  • 2012: Into the surface , Brand New Gallery, Milan
  • 2011: Insurgencies , Angus-Huges Gallery, London
  • 2010: Nothing gold can stay, part II , Galerie Meinblau, Berlin

Web links

  • [1] Oscar Murillo with David Zwirner
  • [2] Oscar Murillo on artnet

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Paumgarten: Dealer's Hand , Newyorker.com, accessed January 17, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Katya Kazakina: Oscar Murillo Mints Money With Scribbles, Dirt, Food , Bloomberg.com, Retrieved January 17, 2014
  3. ↑ David Zwirner: Oscar Murillo , Davidzwirner.com, Retrieved January 17, 2014
  4. ↑ http://frequenciesproject.net/#/
  5. ↑ a b c Mark Brown: Turner prize awarded four ways after artists' plea to judges . In: theguardian.com, December 3, 2019 (accessed December 4, 2019).
  6. ↑ a b Sensation in the British art world . In: tagesschau.de, December 4, 2019 (accessed December 4, 2019).
  7. ↑ Saatchi Gallery: Oscar Murillo , Saatchigallery.com, accessed January 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Murillo, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH La Paila, Valle del Cauca , Colombia