Journey Through the Gallery – Gabriel Kuri, carbon index compost copy

In the second installment of our team's favorite exhibitions from the history of the gallery, Andrea Rossetti, photographer and dear friend, speaks about why the 2011 Gabriel Kuri exhibition carbon index compost copy is particularly special to him.⁠

“This was the very first exhibition I documented at Esther Schipper, so I have very special feelings when I think about it and remember the installations and artworks very vividly. It was also the very first show at the Schöneberger Ufer location, and I like the idea that both myself and the gallery have a shared milestone together.”

In carbon index compost copy Gabriel Kuri fused formal and material aspects in a dichotomy of physical shape, object nature, and reduction. The work incorporated a complex combination of minimalist formal language and veiled biographical reference into a very personal and often poetic discourse. Contemporary references of mundane applications, casually dispersed among the work, such as bank notes, plastic bags, official queuing tickets linked his timeless objects to the contemporary universe as well as creating a critical reference to current value systems.

See inside the exhibition here