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Damián Ortega

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Damián Ortega: Estridentópolis

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Text by Linda Klich.

Anthropomorphic skyscraper sculptures from a master of found materials

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Damián Ortega: Expanded View

LA FáBRICA
Text by Vicente Todolí, Peio Aguirre, Rafael Toriz. Interview by Roberta Tenconi.

Found, deconstructed, suspended: on Ortega’s dramatic and satirical airborne art

Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 186 pgs / 105 color. | 6/6/2023 | In stock
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Damián Ortega: Reading Landscapes

KUKJE GALLERY
Text by Gabriel Kuri. Interview by Clara Kim.

Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 163 pgs / 70 color. | 6/23/2015 | In stock
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Damián Ortega: The Beetle and Other Works

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS/REDCAT
Essays by Eungie Joo, Hari Kunzru and Alma Ruiz.

Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color / 50 bw. | 2/1/2006 | Not available
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Damián Ortega: EstridentópolisDamián Ortega: Estridentópolis

Published by RM/kurimanzutto.
Text by Linda Klich.

Mexican artist Damián Ortega (born 1967) makes sculptures and installations from industrial objects such as VW car parts and trash barrels. This project features a small-scale “city” of skyscrapers with the heads of animals alongside disembodied workers’ garments and wrinkled, patterned collages made from cement bags.



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Damián Ortega: Expanded ViewDamián Ortega: Expanded View

Published by La Fábrica.
Text by Vicente Todolí, Peio Aguirre, Rafael Toriz. Interview by Roberta Tenconi.

Before Mexican sculptor Damián Ortega (born 1967) rose to prominence in the contemporary art world, he was a political cartoonist. This transition was intuitive for Ortega, and his sculptures and installations maintain the piercing, satirical eye required of his former occupation. He is internationally admired for his sculptures that literally deconstruct and reconfigure commercial products such as Coke bottles or, in one of his most celebrated works, a Volkswagen Beetle. Ortega presents these vernacular objects in precise arrangements that cohere into witty representations of diagrams, faces, words and buildings. Many of these pieces, however, are suspended in the air; by virtue of the space between the objects, the resulting representations appear fragmented.
This catalog, published alongside the exhibition at Centro Botín, exclusively displays these suspended works.



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Damián Ortega: Reading LandscapesDamián Ortega: Reading Landscapes

Published by Kukje Gallery.
Text by Gabriel Kuri. Interview by Clara Kim.

Mexican artist Damián Ortega (born 1967) is well known for his sculptures that literally deconstruct and reconfigure commercial products, like Coke bottles or, in one of his most celebrated works, a Volkswagen Beetle. In a new body of sculptural work, documented in Damián Ortega: Reading Landscapes, the artist turns his deconstructive impulses toward natural, geologic forms. Inspired by ideas of "deep time," a geological concept of how the earth documents its own history in layers of rock deposited over some 4.6 billion years, Ortega explores how basic concepts of geology--like the phenomenon of sedimentary layers--can be used as a formal approach to making sculpture. Damián Ortega: Reading Landscapes, published to accompany the artist's first solo show in Korea, includes an interview with the artist conducted by Clara Kim and a text by Gabriel Kuri.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 174   

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Damián OrtegaDamián Ortega

Survival of the Idea

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited and with text by Friedrich Meschede.

The Mexican artist Damián Ortega loves to dissemble iconic consumer goods--Coke bottles, Volkswagen Beetles, even tortilla chips--and recombine their parts to produce refreshing sculptural perspectives on their cultural meaning and function. For this book he has put together a selection of drawings, made between 1991 and 2007, that were created to plot these sculptures and their installations. Ortega, who was once a political cartoonist, retains in his drawings an open-endedness that invites the viewer to imagine the work’s possible applications. The book’s title, Supervivencia de la Idea (Survival of the Idea), refers to its partial status as an archive of ideas--some of which have already been executed, others of which await realization, as with Ortega’s recent mobile obelisk for New York’s Central Park.
Damián Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005), Tate Modern, London (2005) and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2002), among others.

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 164   

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Damián Ortega: The Beetle and Other Works

Published by California Institute of the Arts/Redcat.
Essays by Eungie Joo, Hari Kunzru and Alma Ruiz.

This first North American monograph on Mexican artist Damian Ortega documents 10 years of work focused on conceptual practice, social organization, and humor, including the installations and performances that make up his acclaimed Beetle Trilogy, several works never before exhibited and a great deal of unpublished material. Most of what's here hasn't been seen before. The first episode of the trilogy, "The Cosmic Thing," a disassembled Volkswagen suspended in the air, was featured in Gabriel Orozco's Il Quotidiano Alterato at the 2003 Venice Biennale, and was one of the most widely reproduced images of that year's exhibition. "Moby Dick," a heroic action involving the artist's Beetle, a live band, ropes and pulleys, followed, and then "Beetle '83 Escarabajo," a ritual return to the vehicle's place of birth, closed the cycle. The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works includes a new comic, 150 color images and an original essay by Hari Kunzru, author of The Impressionist and one of Granata's 20 "Best Young British Novelists" in 2003.

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color / 50 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 129   

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