Gabriel Orozco

Gabriel Orozco (* April 27, 1962 in Xalapa, Veracruz ) is a Mexican conceptual artist.

Life

Orozco began his education at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plastica ( ENAP ), the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City and then went to Madrid to retrain in the Circulo de Bellas Artes in 1986 and 1987. Since 1991 he lives with his family travel between Paris, New York and Mexico City.

Work

Orozco's works explore the things of everyday life, often prevent the visitors with a, are installations with amazing statements ( for example, the installation La DS), drawings, photographs and sculptures. Orozco took three times, in the years 1993, 2003 and 2005, at the Venice Biennial, was twice participants in the Whitney Biennial and in Documenta X (1997) and Documenta 11 represented in 2002.

Awards (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013: Gabriel Orozco: Natural Motion, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz.
  • 2012: Gabriel Orozco: asterisms, German Guggenheim Berlin
  • 2006/2007: Gabriel Orozco, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 2006: Gabriel Orozco, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
  • 2005: Gabriel Orozco, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
  • 2004: Gabriel Orozco: Photographs, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
  • 2004: Gabriel Orozco, Serpentine Gallery, London
  • 2001: Gabriel Orozco, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • 2001: Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
  • 2001: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
  • 1999: Exhibition No. 91, Chacahua, portico, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1999: Photo Gravity, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • 1998: Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, United States
  • 1998: Gabriel Orozco: Clinton is Innocent, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
  • 1997: Gabriel Orozco: From Green Glass to Airplane Recordings, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 1996: Gabriel Orozco, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1994: Options 47: Gabriel Orozco, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago ), Illinois, United States
  • 1993: Gabriel Orozco: Projects 41, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Publications (selection )

  • Kaspar König and Angelika Nollert, afterword by Daniel Birnbaum: Chacahua. Exhibition # 91 in the portico, 1999.
  • Bookstore King, Cologne: Gabriel Orozco. 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-166-7.
  • Yves -Alain Bois: Gabriel Orozco. MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA, ISBN 978-0-262013185.
  • Bernhard Mendes Bürgi: Gabriel Orozco. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2510-1.
  • Bernhard Bürgi: Gabriel Orozco. Kunsthalle Zurich, 1996.
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