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Oscar Murillo — “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.”
Oscar Murillo

“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

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

May 15, 2014

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Oscar Murillo, “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
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Emerging Global Voice, Male Artist, Gestural Painting, Colombian Artist, Mixed Media, Process Based Art, Contemporary Artist, Earthy Tones, Canvas, Raw Aesthetic

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