Gabriel Orozco

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

Life

Orozco was a Murales painter and professor of art at the University of Veracruz. He moved the family to Mexico City when Gabriel was six years old, as he received a call from David Alfaro Siqueiros to help him with the execution of various murals.

Orozco began his training at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas (ENAP), the Academia de San Carlos , in Mexico City and then went to Madrid to study at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in 1986 and 1987. Since 1991 he has lived with his family as a hiker between Paris , New York and Mexico City.

"La DS" by Gabriel Orozco

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Orozco's works explore things of everyday life, often involve visitors, are installations with astonishing statements (for example the installation “La DS” → Citroën DS ), drawings, photographs and sculptures. Orozco took part in the Biennale di Venezia three times, in 1993, 2003 and 2005, was twice (1995 and 1997) participant in the Whitney Biennial and in Documenta X (1997) and Documenta 11 in 2002.

In 2006 he made a complete whale skeleton with the dimensions 304 × 392 × 1375 after discoveries on the coast of Baja California in Mexico. This has been shown worldwide so far, most recently in 2013 at the Kunsthaus Bregenz .

Awards (selection)

• 1987: Prize in the Seccio Espacios Alternativos of the Salon Nacional de Artes Plasticas , Mexico City.
• 1995: residency for Berlin the DAAD as artist in residence .
• 2006: Prize of the Deutsche Volksbanken and Raiffeisenkassen (blue-orange prize).

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2013: Gabriel Orozco: Natural Motion , Kunsthaus Bregenz , Bregenz . Catalog.
• 2012: Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms , Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
• 2009/2010/2011: Gabriel Orozco , Museum of Modern Art , New York; Kunstmuseum Basel , Basel; Tate Modern , London
• 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 , Portikus , Frankfurt am Main
• 1999: Photogravity , Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
• 1998: Saint Louis Art Museum , Missouri , USA
• 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 Zürich , Switzerland
• 1994: Options 47: Gabriel Orozco , Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) , Illinois , USA
• 1993: Gabriel Orozco: Projects 41 , Museum of Modern Art, New York

Publications (selection)

• Obituaries , text by Hans Ulrich Obrist . König, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86560-974-8 .
• Yilmaz Dziewior : Gabriel Orozco: Natural Motion . König, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86335-330-8 .
• Kasper König and Angelika Nollert, afterword by Daniel Birnbaum : Chacahua. Exhibition No. 91 in the Portikus, 1999.
• Bookstore König, Cologne: Gabriel Orozco. 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-166-7 .
• Yves-Alain Bois: Gabriel Orozco . MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA, ISBN 978-0-262-01318-5 .
• Bernhard Mendes Bürgi: Gabriel Orozco. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2510-1 .
• Bernhard Bürgi: Gabriel Orozco. Kunsthalle Zurich, 1996.
• Jessica Morgan: Gabriel Orozco , Tate Britain, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-85437-912-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Gabriel Orozco in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A Walgerippe on Lake Constance in Kunstzeitung September 2013, page 14