Gabriel Orozco

Gabriel Orozco was born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1962, and currently lives in Mexico City, New York and Paris. He has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His work was included in Documenta X (1997) and the 2003 Venice Biennale; he is represented in New York by Marian Goodman Gallery.

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GABRIEL OROZCO: ASTERISMS
Text by Nancy Spector.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780892074839 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2012
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GABRIEL OROZCO
Text by Ann Temkin, Anne Byrd, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Briony Fer, Paulina Pobocha.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870707629 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2009
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GABRIEL OROZCO: THE SAMURAI TREE INVARIANTS
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865601667 | US $100.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2007
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GABRIEL OROZCO
Text by Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Briony Fer.
TURNER/A&R PRESS/CONACULTA-INBA
ISBN: 9789689056065 | US $90.00
Pub Date: 4/1/2007
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GABRIEL OROZCO: CATáLOGO DE LA EXPOSICIóN EL PALACIO DE CRISTAL
Artwork by Gabriel Orozco.
TURNER
ISBN: 9788475067155 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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GABRIEL OROZCO: TRABAJO 1992-2002
Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqul, Molly Nesbit and Angeline Scherf.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883756134 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2004
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GABRIEL OROZCO: SERPENTINE GALLERY
Essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Briony Fer, and Rochelle Steiner.,
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883758374 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2004
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GABRIEL OROZCO
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES
ISBN: 9780914357759 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 6/2/2000
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GABRIEL OROZCO
Artwork by Gabriel Orozco. Contributions by Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen.
ARTIMO/STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM
ISBN: 9789075380101 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 11/2/2001
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GABRIEL OROZCO: PHOTOGRAVITY
Essay by Ann Temkin.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
ISBN: 9780876331286 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2000
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Gabriel Orozco

"Noodles in the Fence," 2000, by Gabriel Orozco was featured at the artist's major 2009-2010 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Gabriel Orozco: Obituaries

Text and interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Published by Walther König, Köln

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.

Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms

Text by Nancy Spector.
Published by Guggenheim Museum

Gabriel Orozco’s Asterisms is a two-part sculptural and photographic installation comprising thousands of items of detritus he gathered at two sites--a coastal wildlife reserve in Baja California, Mexico, and a playing field near his home in New York City. The first component of the installation, Sandstars, draws on the voluminous amounts of waste deposited on the shores of the wildlife reserve by Pacific currents. Orozco’s monumental sculptural carpet of nearly 1,200 objects is accompanied by 12 large-scale gridded photographs of the individual objects in a studio setting, organized typologically by material, color and size. An additional grid documents the landscape from which the objects were retrieved, along with incidental compositions made in situ from the castaway items. The second component, Astroturf Constellation, also explores taxonomic classification, but on a completely different scale. It comprises a collection of miniscule bits of debris--again numbering around 1,200 items--left behind by athletes and spectators in the Astroturf of a playing field in New York City. As with Sandstars, the objects are displayed alongside 13 photographic grids. This volume highlights Orozco’s subtle practice of subjecting the world to personal, idiosyncratic systems while invoking several of the artist’s recurrent motifs, including the effects of erosion, the poetry of the mundane, the relationship between the macro and the micro and the tension between nature and culture.

Gabriel Orozco

Text by Ann Temkin, Anne Byrd, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Briony Fer, Paulina Pobocha.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. His work is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, resisting confinement to one medium and roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting. Orozco deliberately blurs the boundary between the art object and the everyday environment, situating his work in a place that merges art and reality, whether through exquisite drawings made on airplane boarding passes or sculptures composed of recovered trash. This publication examines two decades of the artist's production year by year, from 1989 through 2009. Each section is richly illustrated and includes a short text, based on interviews with the artist, that combines biographical information with a brief and focused discussion of selected works. Critical essays by Ann Temkin, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Briony Fer supplement these foundational and chronological explorations, providing new insights and strategies for grounding Orozco's work in the larger landscape of contemporary art production.
Gabriel Orozco (born in Mexico, 1962) studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Mexico City, and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Venice Biennale. Orozco lives and works in New York, Paris and Mexico City.

Gabriel Orozco: The Samurai Tree Invariants

Published by Walther König, Köln

Taking the Samurai move (sometimes also called the Knight's move) from the game of chess as his starting point, conceptual artist Gabriel Orozco examines all of the possible mutations within a self-defined spatial and color system in this extremely elaborate, and also quite elegant, artist's book. In each of the 672 digital prints reproduced here, a circle is drawn in the center, and moving out from this point, a sequence of increased or decreased circles is also drawn, until the limits of the square are reached. Each of these original prints is roughly 20 inches square, and seen together, they calculate all the possible movements and variations within the rules that Orozco set, which he called "The Samurai Tree." This book spells out an almost incomprehensible complexity in white red, blue and gold.

Gabriel Orozco

Text by Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Briony Fer.
Published by Turner/A&R Press/Conaculta-INBA

The work of Gabriel Orozco is an exemplary adventure of ideas and objects. Always generously implicating the spectator, Orozco draws on a large material repertoire to produce quiet shifts in commonplace scenarios. This book, published to coincide with Orozco's exhibition at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the first substantial monograph on the artist, and testifies to the range of his investigations, from tiny adjustments in everyday locations (such as breath on a piano or reflections in a puddle) to more recent preoccupations with spherical forms in collage and paint. In an extensive interview with Briony Fer, the artist explains some of the conceptual premises of his art. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh situates Orozco´s various sculptural practices within twentieth-century precedents and the climate of postwar consumerism and assesses them as manifestations of a shift in object-subject relations. And Yves-Alain Bois explores Orozco's recent "return" to painting, considering the structural logic of his canvases, in which Orozco deploys self-imposed rules to plot compositions (or "diagrams," as he describes them). With insightful texts and hundreds of illustrations, this big, bold, 360-page book is the definitive work to date on one of the most influential contemporary artists.

Gabriel Orozco: Catálogo De La Exposición El Palacio De Cristal

Artwork by Gabriel Orozco.
Published by Turner

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 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.

Gabriel Orozco: Serpentine Gallery

Essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Briony Fer, and Rochelle Steiner.,
Published by Walther König, Köln

The concept and layout for this artist's book and catalogue in one were conceived by Gabriel Orozco in cooperation with graphic designer Luc Derycke. It features works from 1992 until present--works that delve into geometric patterns, their permutations, and their relations to human forms and movements. Many drawings are included, as well as photographs of the artist's somewhat lesser-known installations.

Gabriel Orozco: Trabajo 1992-2002

Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqul, Molly Nesbit and Angeline Scherf.
Published by Walther König, Köln

A circular book that begins in the middle, this volume explores a variety of lesser-known but important works by Orozco, most of them found in European collections. These process oriented works--drawings, photographs and objects--bring to light some of the essential characteristics of Orozco's artistic attitude, an attitude that underlies most of his major works, that raises awareness through the sculptural everyday.

Gabriel Orozco

Artwork by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Orozco, Damin Ortega. Text by Benjamin Buchloh, Gabriel Kuri, Molly Nesbit.
Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Gabriel Orozco

From Green Glass to Airplane

Artwork by Gabriel Orozco. Contributions by Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen.
Published by Artimo/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

In 1993, Gabriel Orozco removed a lengthwise section of a Citroen 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 Orozco's work with over 250 images of his work reproduced in full color.

Gabriel Orozco: Photogravity

Essay by Ann Temkin.
Published by Philadelphia Museum of Art