Gabriel Kuri's 'Threshold into Deficit' Explores Void After Fontana

Gabriel Kuri, born 1970 in Mexico, presents his fifth solo show at Galleria Franco Noero in Turin, titled 'Threshold into Deficit (the void after Fontana)'. The exhibition investigates the concept of void in the 21st century, contrasting it with Lucio Fontana's mid-20th-century spatial concepts. Kuri notes that Fontana himself stated the idea of void had already been replaced by a mathematical formula in his time. The artist questions whether void is an elsewhere or a concrete space, discovering it in interstices—apparent voids filled with mundane objects like cigarette butts, buttons, coins, switches, eggs, and pepper/salt packets. These objects bear traces of human relations and transformation, a foundational category in Kuri's work. Like Fontana, who never avoided form and expressed ambitious ideas with implacable confidence, Kuri seeks void within object forms, creating new paths and paradigms. The exhibition runs at Galleria Franco Noero in Turin in 2021.