Gabriel Orozco

Born 1962

Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican postminimalist artist. He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas between 1981 and 1984. He then continued his education in Madrid at the Circulo de Bellas Artes between 1986 and 1987. Exploring the use of video, drawings, and installations in addition to his photographs and sculptures, Orozco allows the audience's imagination to explore the creative associations between oft-ignored objects in today's world. His work permits a rarely allowed interaction between the artwork and the audience. For instance, visitors at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California could play a four person game of table tennis on Orozco's Ping Pond Table (1998). The work's center is a lily pond with four hemispherical ping pong table pieces arranged in a clover shape around it.

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• 1994 - The Epic and The Everyday, Hayward Gallery London
• 1995 - Migrateurs, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Parigi
• 1995 - Monica De Cardenas Milan, Italy
• 1995 - Cityscape, Monica de Cardenas Milano, Italy
• 1995 - Currents95: Familiar Places, I.C.A. Boston, MA
• 1996 - Marian Goodman Gallery New York
• 1996 - Gabriel Orozco present Tense, Contemporary Project Series, Art Gallery Ontario, Canada
• 1996 - Drawing on Chance: Selection from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
• 1996 - Portrait of the artist, Anthony D'Offey Gallery London, England
• 1996 - Nuove Acquisizioni, MOMA New York, NY
• 1996 - Where is Abel, Thy Brother, Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art Varsavia
• 1996 - Atomist, Monica De Cardenas Milan, Italy
• 1996 - Marian Goodman New York
• 1997 - Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
• 1997 - Veronica's Revenge, Centre d'Art Contemporain Ginevra
• 1997 - Gabriel Orozco, Sigmar Polke: Voyages, Galerie Chantal Crousel Parigi
• 1997 - Recordings and Drawings, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1998 - Le Fragment, La duree, le montage, Ecole es Beaux Arts Quimper
• 1998 - Photography as Concept, 4a Foto Triuennale Esslingen

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• La D.S. - is one of Orozco's largest works; a silver Citroen DS was sliced into three pieces lengthwise. The middle section was removed and the two remaining pieces were fastened together, forming an arrow-like car with a width 63.5 cm (25 inches) less than the original. Visitors may sit in the new vehicle and the doors and trunk can be opened though it was not made to drive.
• Oval with Pendulum - is a small billiards table with a suspended ball.
• Yielding Stone - is a large ball ofplasticine (modeling clay) that was rolled down city streets in 1992, making impressions in the ball and collecting various debris. The ball ultimately weighed as much as Orozco himself.
• Extension of Reflection (1992) is a photograph of ripples from a bike passing through a puddle. It exemplifies the typical pictures Orozco takes: those that focus on chance and fleeting events.
• Breath on Piano - (1993) is another such picture, capturing the fog from Orozco's breathing.
• Mis Manos son mi Corazon - (1991) is a set of two photographs of the torso of a bare-chested man (possibly Orozco). The first depicts him squeezing his hands around a ball of clay; the second shows the man unfold his hands and the resulting heart-shaped clay form is held in front of his chest.
• Horses Running Endlessly - is an enlarged chess field of 256 square tiles. Knights of four distinct colors are arranged around the board

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Publications

• Gabriel Orozco - by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri, Molly Nesbit, Damian Ortega, Alma Ruiz, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Calif.) Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Gabriel Orozco, Benjamin Buchloh, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (June 15, 2000)
• Gabriel Orozco Trabajo 1992-2002 - by Gabriel Orozco, Deke Dusinberre, Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig (March 2004)
• Gabriel Orozco - by Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, Briony Fer, Gabriel Orozco, Turner/A&R Press/Conaculta-INBA (April 15, 2007)

Quick Facts

• Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican postminimalist artist.
• Exploring the use of video, drawings, and installations in addition to his photographs and sculptures, Orozco allows the audience's imagination to explore the creative associations between oft-ignored objects in today's world.
• For instance, visitors at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California could play a four person game of table tennis on Orozco's Ping Pond Table. The work's center is a lily pond with four hemispherical ping pong table pieces arranged in a clover shape around it.

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