Gabriel Orozco

If the art world had playoffs, Gabriel Orozco might be the Duchampion of the world. His interactive, conceptual investigations into games convert common objects like Ping-Pong and billiard tables into fields of dreamy speculation. Like Marcel Duchamp, reexamining our experience of the world through the familiar objects around us, newly aestheticized. Indeed, Orozco has insisted that “reality” is his medium (rather than the photography, installation and sculpture which he produces). This show more catalogue for an exhibition at Madrid's Palacio de Cristal displays Orozco's fascination with games, as in his “Ping Pond Table,” a four-sided table-tennis platform with a lily pond in the middle, and his Atomists series, in which geometric patterns partly cover wildly animated photographs of sports figures. show less

In this artist’s book, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (born 1962) takes New York Times obituaries of famous people, removing anecdotal information to reveal the wit, drama and absurdity of the press perception of public life.

The book is an attempt to describe the work of Gabriel Orozco as a project of research on the nature of meaning production and world construction. The text examines how Orozco considers the concept of game as the mechanism underlying all processes of sign exchange and production, describing how the artist has appropriated and reconfigured a few specific traditional game fields in order to use them as evidence of culture plays. The writing gives close attention to Gabriel Orozco’s interest show more in the sciences (particularly on concepts like symmetry and the nature of the experiment) and in philosophy. The author wrote this book in close collaboration with Gabriel Orozco in the summer of 2003. show less

"In 1993, Gabriel Orozco removed a lengthwise section of a Citroën DS and reconnected the two sides, making the car's fleet form look lighter yet. In From Green Glass to Airplanes, Orozco continues to experiment with form and play with the viewer's perceptions. His work is singular in its balancing of political and social commitment with an exploration and deconstruction of the possibilities of sculpture, photography, and art. This sizeable and extensive volume features 544 pages of show more Orozco's work with over 250 images of his work reproduced in full color." show less