84: OSCAR MURILLO: A SPACE BETWEEN COLLAPSE AND SPIRIT.

Oscar Murillo: A balancing act between collapse and spirit. David Zwirner - LONDON.

Oscar Murillo, manifestation, (detail) 2023-2024. Oil, oil stick, spray paint, dirt and graphite on canvas. 260 x 280 cm.

To bodily scrawl as if in a state of emergency - to repeat again and again - to layer until a surface of scraped screams fill the continuum as whole - to void a space to riot - en-packeted to silence burns to a cacophony of such zigzagged momentum - to form a cage of allowance versus release.

With controlled speed as to abandon the waxed reverb of declaration - to repeat in obsessive searching - a state of bleeding of the scarred fields of despair.

To render remembrance of what it held within as to condense from a bruising to bursting - of the chaos over the calm, of the repeated over resilience - in the throwing, throbbing of the raw - held up in the tradition of its own revolt.

Oscar Murillo, Telegram, 2013-2014. Oil stick, ballpoint pen, fountain pen, felt tip pen, highlighter pen, permanent marker, paint, crayon, staples, natural pigments, debris and other mixed media on canvas. 34 x 47.5cm.

Morillo rings loud his porous declarations - his flamed manifestos of now or never - a mapped - human alarm call with every fierce rendered arrow - and then to return, with tender whispers that love is life.

Oscar Murillo, manifestation, 2023-2024. Oil, oil stick, spray paint, dirt and graphite on canvas. 260 x 280 cm. Image courtesy of David Zwirner.

Oscar Murillo: A balancing act between collapse and spirit. David Zwirner - London. Until November 16, 2024.

Thank you Sara Chan and Niamh Brogan.