Gabriel Orozco

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Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. His work is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, resisting confinement to one medium and roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting. Orozco deliberately blurs the boundary between the art object and the everyday environment, situating his work in a place that merges art...
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Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. His work is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, resisting confinement to one medium and roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting. Orozco deliberately blurs the boundary between the art object and the everyday environment, situating his work in a place that merges art and reality, whether through exquisite drawings made on airplane boarding passes or sculptures composed of recovered trash. This publication examines two decades of the artist's production year by year, from 1989 through 2009. Each section is richly illustrated and includes a short text, based on interviews with the artist, that combines biographical information with a brief and focused discussion of selected works. Critical essays by Ann Temkin, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Briony Fer supplement these foundational and chronological explorations, providing new insights and strategies for grounding Orozco's work in the larger landscape of contemporary art production.
Gabriel Orozco (born in Mexico, 1962) studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Mexico City, and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Venice Biennale. Orozco lives and works in New York, Paris and Mexico City.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780870707629
  • Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
  • Publication date: 12/31/2009
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 806,725
  • Product dimensions: 9.70 (w) x 12.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

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  • Posted January 9, 2013

    This book is another great addition to either your hand-picked f

    This book is another great addition to either your hand-picked fine arts library or coffee table. As part of his MoMA exhibition, this book covers a significant portion of Orozco's work from the last twenty years. Wonderfully constructed and diverse, this compendium of Gabriel Orozco is one of the best available.    

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2006

    Simple but Dynamic

    Gabriel Orozco is one of the greatest Living artists today. This book is so perfect in showing his most impressive pieces. His work range is so broad it covers so many ideas and theories yet stays within the same thought process. Beautiful and mathmaticly artistic. Respect.

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