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Gabriel Kuri
Artist's Name: Gabriel Kuri
Preferred medium: sculpture / plastik
birth year: 1970
Nationality: MX
City: Mexico City

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Gabriel Kuri poetically calls into question the manner by which we, as a culture, so automatically define that which we are presented with everyday. Kuri uses commonplace materials for their physical properties as well as their semantic implications. In one work, a utilitarian object combined with an icon for celebrating commerce creates a critical spoof on capitalistic culture. Another piece includes a working industrial refrigerator. An appliance used to slow down the natural process of decomposition by cooling is disrupted before the viewers eyes by the very bright momentary pulse of the words "START" "NOW" and END. For Leaflet, Kuri enlarged a daily coupon page of the local newspaper to a twelve by eight foot (approx) tapestry. The temporary nature or fleeting moment of time, the clearly stated expiration date of the actual coupon, is now rendered permanent. Hand-woven and oversized, what was once the result of mass production now evokes the passion and painstaking! c! ! are of a labor of love. Context becomes everything. Accompanying the sculptural works, Kuri has created a series of impromptu drawings that exist as juxtapositions of unrelated common objects, showing a continued insight into the artists process. At once carefree and tense, their nonsensical exploration of material and meaning further exemplify his theoretical framework. Kuris work lies between the sacred and profane, quotidian and ephemeral, and conceptual and concrete. (Sara Meltzer Gallery)

important exhibitions from Gabriel Kuri

Exhibition Location City Country Date
54. Biennale Venedig 2011: Ausstellungen Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 04.06.2011
Gabriel Kuri, Before Contingency after the fact SLG - South London Gallery London GB 29.09.2011
50. Biennale Venedig 2003 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 15.06.2003
Keeping it Real: Material Intelligence Whitechapel Art Gallery London GB 18.03.2011
Gabriel Kuri Kunstverein Freiburg Freiburg DE 11.06.2010
Gabriel Kuri Kunstverein Bielefeld Bielefeld DE 04.09.2010
Revolutionen des Alltäglichen Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen DE 23.08.2009
Gabriel Kuri Sadie Coles HQ London GB 14.10.2008
"Wessen Geschichte" Kunstverein in Hamburg Hamburg DE 12.01.2008

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Galleries representing
Gabriel Kuri:

Esther Schipper Galerie
Galleria Franco Noero
Kurimanzutto
Sadie Coles HQ

Collections representing
Gabriel Kuri

ARCO Foundation Collection
CCA Andratx
Tate Britain