Itinerant for many of its early years, the couple’s Kurimanzutto gallery, founded in 1999, now has two expansive sites, in Mexico City and, more recently, New York. In both they emphasise an international roster, bringing Mexican artists to America (fashion designer Bárbara Sánchez-Kane garnered good reviews for her New York debut of gothic sculptures, as did the work of research-based Minerva Cuevas). In Mexico, at the gallery Kuri described as quintessential to the country’s urban fabric (“You see an anonymous, mute door on the street, but inside it takes you to another world,” he told the About Art podcast), were shows of Nairy Baghramian’s amorphous sculptures, a Mexican premiere of Paulina Olowska’s ghostly work and Abraham Cruzvillegas’s so-called autobio-choreo-graphy by French choreographer Jérôme Bel. With an eye for international opportunity, the couple also collaborated with Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, on a show for Rirkrit Tiravanija, and took their artists to Portugal for a group show with Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel gallery in the resort town of Comporta.
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