Gabriel Kuri, 'Quick Standards', 2009, Emergency aluminium blankets taped on wooden sticks
Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London
An exhibition of new work by the internationally acclaimed Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri. Kuri is known for works that use ordinary objects and materials to address the very nature of sculpture and explore the relationship between use and value. 'All probability resolves into form' was the first presentation of Kuri’s work in Scotland.
Gabriel Kuri, 'All probability resolves into form', installation view, The Common Guild, 2014. Photo: Ruth Clark.
Kuri regularly combines commonplace objects with his own sculptural components to create installations that, as Kate Bush writes, “refuse any hierarchy between the stuff of every day and the stuff of art”. His exhibition at The Common Guild involved the juxtaposition of a series of sculptural forms with found and donated materials. Items of basic necessity – such as blankets, sleeping bags and toiletries – were arranged within a group of formal elements made by the artist, highlighting the use, value and ownership of objects as they waited to be put to use.
At the end of the exhibition, the useable materials were donated to the GLAD Action Network and the Unity Centre, Glasgow.
Photography by Ruth Clark
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Artists Anne Marie Copestake and Katie Schwab led a series of workshops relating to ‘All probability resolves into form’, coordinated by Florrie James.
