Gabriel Kuri

Born:
1970
Residence:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality:
Mexican
Trust:
APT Mexico City
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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Hundreds of people gathered in an empty patch of desert in the Coachella Valley at dusk last Friday.

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  • “Turn right on West Racquet Club Road, follow the road to the end to the guard house, further directions at the guard house.”

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  • Magical Mexico City. A city of poetry, revolution, and art. Centuries of history, spectacular colonial architecture, intimate courtyards, extravagance, cuisine, and culture, Mexico City is a global city that has it all. In the last several years, it has increasingly become an art world destination, renowned for its up-and-coming gallery scene, prominent art collections and museums, and acclaimed art fairs ZONA MACO and Material Art Fair. Here are the must-see fairs, galleries, museums, and other attractions for a week in the Mexican capital.

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  • Untitled, Miami Beach have announced details of their special artist projects and collaborations for the 2016 edition, which will take place on South Beach from November 30th – December 4th.

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  • Due to unique and recognizable artistic styles and important 20th-century artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Mexican artistic scene is the most recognized of all the other Latin American countries. Drawing from the country’s aesthetic traditions to answer pertinent questions regarding life in Mexico and the world today, contemporary Mexican artists turn the local into the conceptual for international appetites. Despite the heavy influence of the major European movements, Mexican art has managed to create a distinctive language and style that has been manifested through important historical movements of Mexican Muralism or The Rupture movement – the heritage that still majorly influences contemporary practices.

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  • Claudia Schmuckli, the Director and Chief Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston is leaving to take on the role of Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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  • The 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana presents “Over you / you”, the 60th-anniversary edition of the Biennial. Founded in 1955 in Yugoslavia, it is not only one of the world’s oldest biennials, but the first dedicated to the graphic arts.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Daniel Guzmán’s work is the result of a constant and disciplined investigation guided by the hand’s intuition, which translates the artist’s imagination and gives it solid form on paper.

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  • Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri opened their gallery together over fifteen years ago. Today kurimanzutto has become one of Mexico’s foremost galleries.

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  • In a new exhibition this spring at the San Jose Museum of Art, Mexican and Mexican-American artists contrast the traditional with the cutting-edge

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  • New MoMA installation, Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, Hiller, Landy, Gupta, Titian, Thek and many more.

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  • An invitation-only component of the fair, it features a selection of galleries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

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  • The second edition of the Hammer Museum’s new biennial, "Made in L.A." 2014, has brought a slew of emerging and under-recognized artists to the museum for a compelling exhibition. Rather than taking over three venues like its inaugural biennial, this year’s "Made in L.A." has regulated itself to just the halls of the Hammer Museum itself, trimming back from 60 featured artists to a more concise and cohesive 35 LA-based artists from past and present.

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  • Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri is known for sculptures that mobilize contrasting dualities. Here he speaks about his current exhibitions in Los Angeles:

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  • The Times asked its reporters and critics to highlight figures in entertainment and the arts who will be making news in 2014. Here’s who they picked:

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  • Artists are magicians in their own right for making something from nothing, for infusing the everyday mundane tools and objects with poetic meaning

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  • In a new exhibition this spring at the San Jose Museum of Art, Mexican and Mexican-American artists contrast the traditional with the cutting-edge

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  • An invitation-only component of the fair, it features a selection of galleries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

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  • The Whitechapel Gallery presents the work of a generation of artists who make a direct link between art and everyday life, in the fourth and final

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  • The Armory Show is delighted to announce that the second edition of Armory Focus will turn its attention to Latin America.

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  • As art collectors and enthusiasts gather in New York City for the annual Armory Show, we present our top 10 selection of things to see during a week packed with the best the art world has to offer.

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  • Bronze, marble—and scrap metal: why dealers are showing sculpture at Art Basel Miami Beach

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  • Chul-Hyun Ahn utilizes light, color, and special illusion to create the impression of infinite space. The Korean artist’s electrically charged abstract sculptures are made from plywood, cast concrete,

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  • Although we had intended to bring you the "Best and Worst" of Art Basel Miami Beach, we found the fair to be so strong this year that no booths

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  • The Armory Show has commissioned Mexican-born, Belgium-based artist Gabriel Kuri to create the visual identity for the 2011 fair.

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  • The Venice Biennale is the United Nations of art exhibitions. It represents high ideals and noble aspirations, and reliably shows itself incapable of fulfilling them.

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  • Galleria Franco Noero announce the opening of its new exhibition space in Turin, with “punto y línea en el altiplano,” an exhibition of new works by

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  • The Armory Show, New York's biggest art bazaar, has released its exhibitor list for the 2011 edition, boasting 274 contemporary and modern art galleries

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BIOGRAPHY

Gabriel Kuri (born 1970, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City and Brussels. His lyrical sculptures incorporate common, often utilitarian, materials in an investigation of form and meaning. Exhibitions include Afterthought is Never Binary at Sadie Coles, London (2017),  with personal thanks to their contractual thingness, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO), USA (2016), Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Ironie der Objekte, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bozen, Italy (2007); Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, England (2006); Monuments to the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (2005); State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London (2004); Elephant Juice ( o sexo entre amigos), kurimanzutto, Mexico City; Interventions, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp; Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; the 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale (2003); Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY (2002); Dedalic Convention, Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; and the 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania (2001). Kuri received his MA from Goldsmiths College in London and is represented by Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, kurimanzutto,Mexico City, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Sadie Coles, London, Regen Projects, Los Angeles


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