Oscar Murillo at Kunstverein in Hamburg and Aspen Art Museum

This month sees the opening of large-scale solo exhibitions by Oscar Murillo in Hamburg and Aspen. For Horizontal Darkness in Search of Solidarity, on view from November 8, 2019, to January 26, 2020, at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Murillo has transformed the museum’s main hall into an agora (or marketplace), reflecting his enduring belief in geographic, cultural, and sociopolitical solidarity. Large canvases from the artist’s manifestation series, which debuted at the London gallery this past June, will be presented along with examples of his effigies—human-scale stuffed figures that relate to the artist's ongoing reflection on the life of workers. As part of the exhibition, visitors are invited to sit on stepped structures similar to sports-stadium benches (also shown in London), which double as seating for the events programmed during the show and offer a vantage point from which visitors can survey the “agora” scene. The exhibition has been organized in cooperation with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England, where OSCAR MURILLO: Violent Amnesia was presented earlier this year. An artist’s book published by Kettle's Yard and Kunstverein will give an overview of Murillo’s practice in 2019, with prominence given to the artist’s solo exhibitions at the two institutions.