Oscar Murillo - Hatje Cantz

A light brown cardboard book slipcase, shot from above against a white background. A black label in the center reads in white text: FREQUENCIES, Oscar Murillo, VOL. I. On the right edge, a small semi-circular notch is cut out.

A front view of a brown cardboard slipcase standing vertically against a white background. In the center is a black rectangular sticker with a white line drawing of a complex, oscillating wave. A thumb notch is visible on the left side.

A book with a textured, solid grey cover stands vertically against a white background. Small black text is printed on the cover. The top line reads FF-CO-01–FF-CO-71 FFE-IT-15-B–FFE-BE-24-S 2013–2024. The bottom line reads FREQUENCIES Oscar Murillo.

An overhead view of a vertically oriented, plain, grayish-brown rectangular object, likely a notebook or book cover, casting a soft shadow on a white background.

A flat, rectangular brown cardboard slipcase box is shown at an angle on a white background. A black label on the top reads in white text, Frequencies, Oscar Murillo, VOL. I.

A light brown, rectangular cardboard box with a lid, photographed from an angle against a plain white background. A black rectangular sticker is centered on the lid, featuring a white, abstract, continuous squiggly line.

An angled, high-view shot of a thick, minimalist hardcover book with a solid grey-brown cover, set against a plain white background. The front cover features the title FREQUENCIES and the author Oscar Murillo in small black text. The spine also has text, including the years 2013-2024.

An angled, high-angle shot of a grey book titled Frequencies by Oscar Murillo, Vol. 1, partially slid out of a brown cardboard slipcase. The title is printed in white on a black label on the case. The entire object is set against a plain white background.

A photograph of an open book on a white surface. The two-page spread displays two contrasting pieces of children's art. The drawing on the left is a sparse, colored-pencil mountain scene with snowflakes. The drawing on the right is a dense, chaotic collage of small doodles, characters, and text.

An open book on a white surface. The left page features a grid of twenty small, black-and-white images of drawings from a school in Iceland. The right page shows a large color photograph of an art gallery with artworks laid out on a long table and paintings on the wall.

An open book on a white background. The left page features a black-and-white photograph of a historic brick building next to a canal. The right page shows a large abstract painting with bold blue and black strokes on a wooden stand, set against a blue-tinted image of an architectural interior with columns.

Oscar Murillo: Frequencies

€ 128.00

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Edited by: Alessandro Rabottini

July 2024, 420 Pages, 350 colored photos

softcover slip-cased

220mm x 338mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5722-5

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
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10629 Berlin
Germany
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Local communities in a global context

Conceived as an archive, the book brings together the experiences of Frequencies, a global participatory project initiated by multimedia artist Oscar Murillo in 2013. Part of the artist's multimedia practice, Frequencies addresses the notion of community through the lens of its making. For over a decade, it has involved members of Murillo's family, studio team and collaborators, visiting schools around the globe, fixing raw canvas onto classroom desks, and inviting the students to freely mark, write and draw on them for a period of approximately six months. Murillo has collected an archive of canvases, which he presented in various interactive exhibitions.

This elegant volume features a lay-flat binding, a dust jacket and richly produced slipcase.

OSCAR MURILLO (*1986, La Paila, Colombia) has developed a multi-faceted and ambitious practice that spans painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation. He received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in 2012 and was one of four artists to collectively win the prestigious Turner Prize in 2019.