Gabriel Orozco
Marian Goodman, New York
From September 14 through October 15, the solo exhibition of Gabriel Orozco’s (Mexico, b.1962) new works could be viewed in Marian Goodman Gallery.
Articulated in three parts, the exhibition presented two new working groups. The first, Corplegados, was a series of large format drawings. As in former works such as Havre-Caumartin (1999), Corplegados are the manifestation imprints of the body while interacting in specific situations. The relationship with the environment is an important element in all of Orozco’s work. Urban change is visually evident in the series: the color gestures, the pictorial forms, the lines, the geometries and the color gamut reflect these habitat transitions. These alterations reflect the different psychological and/or environmental changes to which the artist and his drawings have been exposed. Orozco has referred to the Corplegados series as a sort of "expanded notebooks", just like his notebooks have served as the artist’s companions for long periods of time and relate directly with the environment in which they are created.
The second group, Particle Paintings, is a series of paintings that continue the process of geometric investigation of the artist’s last twenty years, through inserted circular forms and rectilinear axes to explore behaviors of form and construction. The images utilized in the paintings are photographic reproductions of Orozco’s own photographs, found postcards, images from Internet news, as well as some of his preferred paintings of the history of art.
Also shown in the exhibition, a new series of terracotta figures, a work which also continues Orozco’s exploration on the medium that has been part of his practice since 1991.
This is Orozco’s first solo show after the important retrospective presented in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kunstmuseum, Basel; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, as well as Tate Modern, London.
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Mixed media. Frame size: 81 x 46.5 in. (each). Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. Photo credit: John Berens. Vista de la instalación “Corplegados“, 2010. Técnica mixta. Medida del marco: 205.7 x 118.1 cm c/u. Cortesía del artista y Marian Goodman Gallery, Nueva York. Fotografía: John Berens
