Gabriel Kuri

Esther Schipper, Berlin

carbon index compost copy. On the occasion of this year's Gallery Weekend Berlin and the inauguration of the new gallery space at Schoneberger Ufer, Esther Schipper shows new sculptural works by the artist. Gabriel Kuri is renowned for his collages and sculptures made from the remains of everyday life and found objects. His works bring together a mixture of materials such as marble, stone or concrete. Employing the laws of physics, like balance and gravity, he combines these with everyday objects or consumer articles like shopping bags, drink cans and receipts.

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Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition by Mexican-born artist Gabriel Kuri. On the occasion of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin and the inauguration of the new gallery space at Schöneberger Ufer 65, Esther Schipper will show new sculptural works by the artist.

Gabriel Kuri is renowned for his collages and sculptures made from the remains of everyday life and found objects. His works bring together a mixture of materials such as marble, stone or concrete. Employing the laws of physics, like balance and gravity, he combines these with everyday objects or consumer articles like shopping bags, drink cans and receipts. This juxtaposition of sources invites the viewer to reflect upon relationships in globalised times, including economic structures, systems of exchange and cultural identity. For the artist, “all materials, no matter how raw they appear (water, stone, the wood from trees, the flow of electricity...) are all socially branded and coded, it is only a matter of degree”.

Gabriel Kuri is perhaps best-known for his works using proofs of purchase, such as the three Superama tapestries of till receipts produced between 2003 and 2006 or Column (2009-2010), which consists of sales tickets, invoices and vouchers stuck through a vertical slender steel rod held in place between two lumps of concrete fixed to ceiling and floor. For his exhibition carbon index compost copy, the artist returns to these everyday objects. In the main space a series of large white marble slabs lean against the wall separated by various proofs of purchase. Referring to his earlier well-known works that used mechanical devices, such as fridges or a conveyor belt, the artist will also present two pieces involving industrially produced hand towel dispensers in combination with volcanic rocks, and a photocopy machine wrapped in insulating roofing roll.

Gabriel Kuri was born in 1970 in Mexico City. After graduating from Goldsmith College, London, he has exhibited widely in Europe and America. His solo exhibition Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab was shown at The Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, and is on view till 4 July, 2011 at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. Other recent solo exhibitions include Museion – Museum for Contemporary Art in Bolzano (2010), Kunstverein Freiburg and Kunstverein Bielefeld (2010). Kuri participated in numerous group exhibitions such as Unmonumental at the New Museum (2007) or the 5th Berlin Biennial (2008) and will take part in this yearʼs 54 Venice Biennial. The artist lives and works in Mexico City and Brussels.

Esther Schipperʼs new exhibition space is located in a classical residence from the 1890s, which has been redesigned by the Berlin based architect Arno Brandlhuber, while the interior design of the new offices has been realised by the Berlin based architect Christiane Schmitz.

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