Sara Meltzer
Gallery
Gabriel
Kuri, Untitled, 2000/2002
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Gabriel
Kuri: Recent Works
April 26 June 8, 2002
Opening: Friday, April 26, 6 8pm
Sara Meltzer Gallery
516 West 20th Street
NY, NY 10011
212.727.9330
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Sara Meltzer Gallery is pleased to present, Gabriel Kuri: Recent Works.
This is Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri's first solo exhibition in the
United
States. Born and based in Mexico City, Kuri sets up an intertwined
dialogue of many tropes including cultural identity, economic
structures,
class issues, history, and temporality.
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.
Gabriel Kuri received his MA from Goldsmiths College in London and has
exhibited extensively around the world. He has had solo exhibitions at
Sala 7 Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City), Museo de las Artes de
Guadalajara, Le Magasin Centre National dArt Contemporain de
Grenoble,
where he presented a collaborative project with Liam Gillick. Kuri has
also been included in group exhibitions including LACMA, MCA Chicago,
Sonsbeek 2001, Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), MAK Galerie (Vienna),
and
the Tirana Biennial 2001.
Room 02: Roger Andersson: New Damage
Video Wall: Michael Goedecke and Eric Saks Dust.
For full information please contact Adria Marquez: adriasmg@hotmail.com
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