Oscar Murillo: Arepas y Tamales Shirt Nam June Paik ” (Here is Man Ray

” (Here is Man Ray

as well as a short text by the artist sparked by the traumatic experience of losing a suitcase filled with personal and artistic valuables

these sculptures incorporate visual puns and art historical footnotes that embody their creator’s preference for counterpoint and fugue

The use of camouflage recalls the artist’s early Polyrhythm works

Oscar Murillo: Arepas y Tamales Shirt Nam June Paik ” (Here is Man RayOscar Murillos Arepas y Tamales printed shirts feature emblems from drawings the artist collected from schoolchildrens desks around the world for his Frequencies project. The shirts were worn for the first time by musicians from the Mar, Ro y Cordillera collective, hailing from the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia, where Murillo was raised, when Murillo invited them to perform as part of a public program at Berlins Haus der Kulturen der Welt in