Gabriel Orozco
born 1962
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Gabriel Orozco (born April 20, 1962) is a Mexican artist. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984 and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid between 1986 and 1987. Orozco gained his reputation in the early 1990s with his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. In 1998 Francesco Bonami called him "one of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too." Within the past fifteen years Orozco has also created work in the medium of painting.
An avid world traveler, Orozco, his wife Maria Gutierrez, and their son Simón, divide their time between Paris, New York, Mexico City and Ubud.
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Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern
The mexican artist is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects
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Tate Papers
Index, Diagram, Graphic Trace: Involuntary Drawing
The graphic trace is a hybrid type of representation: it takes from the index a registration of something unique – an ...
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Now is for ever, again: The everyday
From Gabriel Orozco’s exhibition of yoghurt pot lids to Rirkrit Tiravanija’s transformation of a gallery into a kitchen to serve ...
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What am I looking at?: Gabriel Orozco III
A fellow artist celebrates several well-known works
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The early adventures: Gabriel Orozco I
Since it was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1993, Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box has become one of ...
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Tate Etc. issue 21: Spring 2011
Tate Etc. Issue 21: Visiting and revisiting Art, etcetera; online edition of Tate's magazine
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Nothing works: The void
Marcel Duchamp’s phial of Paris air, Yves Klein’s The Void exhibition, Martin Creed’s Work No.227: The lights going on ...
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Where can I get a whale skeleton?: Gabriel Orozco II
In 2006 Gabriel Orozco installed an 11.7 metre grey whale skeleton in Mexico City’s José Vasconcelos Library. But ...
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Elasticity of Exhibition: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This paper looks at a number of exhibitions planned and installed by artists from the late 1950s until the present ...
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The legacy of a myth maker: Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys is considered by some as the most important of the post-war period – a sculptor, performance artist, teacher and ...
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But is it installation art?
What does the term ‘installation art’ mean? Does it apply to big dark rooms that you stumble into to watch ...
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