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David Zwirner is pleased to present News, an exhibition of new paintings by Oscar Murillo, on view at the gallery’s Paris location. Made while he was under quarantine in Colombia in the spring and summer of 2020, these works respond to the fraught social and political landscape within which they were created, while further developing ongoing subjects of concern for the artist. The heightened formal and visual intensity of these paintings represents a point of departure in Murillo’s art that speaks to the anxieties and conditions of the present moment with newfound urgency.

In March 2020 when …