
“Most painters are terrified of painting in the same space where they are eating, sleeping and defecating. This is my idea of how the work progresses.”
A raw and visceral work by Oscar Murillo, this large-scale canvas bears the accumulative marks of oilstick, spray paint, oil, and dirt, embodying the artist's belief in art as an extension of everyday life. The chaotic layering of materials reflects Murillo's practice of working in shared, lived-in spaces, where the boundaries between creation and survival dissolve. The work stands as both a manifesto and a record, its grimy, gestural surfaces insisting that painting cannot — and should not — be separated from the messy, bodily reality of human existence.
- Medium
- oilstick, spray paint, oil, dirt on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 15, 2014
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