Art as a discipli

‘Art as a discipline will always be capable of changing awareness and inspiring new directions.’ – #GabrielKuri Kuri critiques the world of commerce, an underlying theme defined by his time living in and observing the cultures, economies, and politics of Mexico City, Brussels, and Los Angeles – three cities where consumer habits, recycling, and waste vary greatly. Using a vast assortment of found and repurposed materials, from marble slabs to cigarette butts, Kuri produces work that contemplates commercial and cultural value, consumerism, as well as material and its poetic uses.⁠ Like the greats of Arte Povera and Minimalism, ‘[Kuri] doesn't just take ordinary things to create something extraordinary, he keeps them ordinary and asks the viewer to do the heavy lifting,’ Evan J. Garza wrote in the May/June 2011 edition of Art Papers. — Gabriel Kuri ‘Untitled (tongues and holes I)’, 2018 Stainless steel dispensers, paper, shells @Galleria.FrancoNoero | Galleries 2019 #artbasel2019 #artbasel