Gabriel Orozco - Contemporary Art Part II New York Tuesday, November 9, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Mary Boone Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited


    London, St.James’s Street, Empty Club, June - July 1996 (another example exhibited); Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Mexico City, Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo; and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Gabriel Orozco, June 2000 - May 2001 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature


    F. Bonami, “Back in Five Minutes”, Parkett No. 48, Zurich 1996, p. 50 (illustrated); F. Bonami, L. Bossé, B. Buchloh and A. Scherf, Gabriel Orozco: Clinton is Innocent, Paris 1998, p. 174 (illustrated); Empty Club, St.James’s Street, London 1996, pp. 67-73, 76-79 (another example illustrated); Gabriel Orozco, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Mexico City, Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo; and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey,Los Angeles 2001, pp. 50-51 (another example illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Gabriel Orozco

    Mexican • 1954

    Gabriel Orozco's diverse practice, which includes sculpture, photography, painting and video, is centered on the rejection of the concept of a traditional studio. Alternatively, Orozco's conceptual process involves using quotidian objects as commentary on urban society. In the widely exhibited La DS (1993), Orozco cut a Citroën DS car into thirds, eliminating the central section and reconfiguring the remaining parts.

    Another important motif in Orozco's lexicon is that of the colored ellipses. In his seminal series, Samurai Tree Invariants, the artist employs fragmented colored circles as the basis for geometric compositions, exploring the movements made by a knight on a chessboard. These not only represent Orozco's conceptual practices but illustrate his interest in both the geometric and organic world.

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Arbol Lunar (Moon Tree)

1996

Mixed media sculpture with tree, artificial branches and leaves, paper discs, plastic pot and bark chips.

100 x 78 x 78 in. (254 x 198.1 x 198.1 cm).

This work is from an edition of nine.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $56,250

Contemporary Art Part II

9 November 2010
New York