Gabriel Kuri: Soft Information In Your Hard Facts

The art of Gabriel Kuri (Mexico City, 1970) embraces various media, including sculpture, collage, installation and photography, onto which the artist transfers his observations of daily life. Recurrent elements such as receipts and plastic bags hook up with issues like consumerism, the economy and worldliness. The result is a complex visual language which while on the one hand is immediately identifiable, on the other is carefully subjected to constant reformulations. The show includes a selection of recent works and works created for the Museion exhibition.

In 2010 Kuri is holding solo exhibitions in Fribourg, Bielefeld and Houston. Aside from his solo show at Museion, in 2010 Gabriel Kuri will be featuring in three other solo exhibitions at international institutions: the show join the dots and make a point is a cooperation between Kunstverein Freiburg (11.06 – 08.08.2010) and Bielefelder Kunstverein (03.09 - 01.11. 2010), while Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab is the title of the solo exhibition that the artist is staging at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (28.08 - 13.11.2010).