Within Murillo’s work he uses a large variety of materials to produce his artworks such as latex, drift wood, textiles, old bank notes and dirt. These materials help Murillo achieve his distinctive abstract style displaying his gestural movements including large rips and varying surfaces showing the fragility and vulnerability of his work.
Murillo coats the linen in latex to stiffen the fabric, preserving its shape and organic structure as it is hung displaying the natural creases and folds given by the artist both during and after the work has been produced.
This artwork was hung outside the central pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2015, the artwork is made up of blackened and pitched canvases and were draped from the ceiling from one corner cascading down interacting and having a connection with the ground beneath. As well as referencing the skin of scilenced and exploited bodies, this artwork also evokes the crude fact that oil continues to serve as the fuel and fire for our society and is the cause of so many wars across the globe.
Overall to conclude Oscar Murillo’s work covers many avenues such as identity, community and migration, this has no direct link as to why I am looking at the artist but it is his production methods and ways in which he works with materials that has attracted me to his work.