Provenance
White Cube at Mason's Yard, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006
Exhibited
London, White Cube at Mason's Yard, 12 Paintings and a Drawing, September 29 - November 11, 2006
Vienna, Hirmer Verlag, Gold, March 15, 2012 - June 17, 2012
Literature
blueorange, exh. cat., Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2006, p. 53 (illustrated)
Dark Wave, exh. cat., White Cube, London, 2006, p. 46 (illustrated)
Gold, exh. cat., Hirmer Verlag, Vienna, 2012, p. 323 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
“A spirit of constant invention makes [Gabriel Orozco’s] production one of the most intriguing and original of his generation,” wrote Glenn Lowry in the catalogue for the artist’s 2009 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Orozco was born to a highly educated and artistic family in Mexico, his father being a third-generation muralist in the tradition of David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. Yet, Orozco’s extraordinarily philosophical and conceptual art was not immediately appreciated by the Mexican art scene during his youth. Instead, he first became recognized in New York in the early 1990s, and then at the 1992 exhibition, America: Bride of the Sun, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp—where Orozco exhibited along with Lucio Fontana and Cildo Meireles—that he truly launched his career.

From there, Orozco would go on to travel and exhibit around the world, renouncing the sanctified space of the traditional artist’s studio, and instead utilizing the everyday streets as his canvas. The present work, Samurai Tree 6C (2006), comes from one of the artist’s best known series, one that disrupts the viewer’s traditional notions of art by utilizing the medium of painting yet removing the artist’s hand completely, as well as his creative impulses. Rather, the series of Samurai Tree Invariants—begun in 2004 and each executed by either Philippe Piccoli or Christian Macia—has over 600 computer generated permutations designed by Orozco and based on a composition drawn into four quadrants, following a systematic series of circles bisected by dividing lines with rotating colors of red, blue, white and gold.
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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Gabriel Orozco

Samurai Tree 6C

egg tempera on red cedar panels with gold leaf
21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. (55 x 55 cm)
Painted in 2006, this work is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity issued by White Cube.

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$200,000 - 300,000

Sold for $231,250

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Untitled
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Metaesquema
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Physichromie No. 939
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Composición
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Banderinhas com mastro
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Lygia Pape
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Lygia Pape
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O Cisne
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Jackie (from the series Pictures of Diamonds)
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Carmen Herrera
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Gabriel Orozco
Samurai Tree 6C
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Remedios Varo
La Mujer libélula (Dragonfly Woman)
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Untitled
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Tehuanas
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Tres amigos
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Diego Rivera
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Miguel Covarrubias
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Eduardo MacEntyre
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León Ferrari
Untitled
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Disco
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Anna Maria Maiolino
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Sol
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Jesús Rafael Soto
Light Trap (Piège de lumière)
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Edgar Negret
Tower
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Creative Net-work
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Naranja-Verde-Azul
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Guillermo Kuitca
Untitled
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Los Carpinteros
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Allora & Calzadilla
Untitled (from the series Lakes, Rivers, Ponds and Streams)
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Rosângela Rennó
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Thelonious (Monk)
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Miguel Ángel Rojas
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Matías Duville
Untitled
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Pedro Reyes
Disarm (Harmonica)
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Carlos Garaicoa
Aquí estuvieron los cubanos (I and II)
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Pedro Motta
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Tomás Saraceno
View of Uyuni from Lacaille 9352
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María Fernanda Cardoso
Seahorse Circle
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Regina Silveira
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Liliana Porter
Red with Them
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Francis Alÿs
Untitled (Study for Linchados / Lynching)
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Servando Cabrera Moreno
Amatista
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Manuel Mendive
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Julio Galán
Untitled (De nuevo nunca me quieras)
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Oswaldo Guayasamín
Mujer llorando
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Benjamín Cañas
The Critics
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Federico Herrero
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Ernesto Neto
Colonia
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Mariana Palma
Untitled
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Vik Muniz
The Descent from the Cross, after Caravaggio (from the series 'Pictures of Chocolate')
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Vik Muniz
Obama (from the series 'Pictures of Magazine 2')
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Luis Felipe Ortega
Mirando a través de algo que parece uno mismo
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Carlos Arias Vicuña
Distancia (Distance)
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Dr. Lakra
Untitled (Retro con músculos)
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José Bedia
El precio
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Alfredo Otero
Untitled (from the series 'Muros')
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Samy Benmayor
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Eugenio Espinoza
Untitled
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Alfredo Jaar
Reflexions
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José Antonio Hernández Diez
MP3 vol.3
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Gabriel Orozco
Drained Pot
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Gabriel Orozco
Tortillas y Ladrillos (Tortillas and Bricks)
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Los Carpinteros
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Carlos Garaicoa
Untitled (from the series 'La ciudad vista desde la mesa casa')
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Nicola Costantino
Male Nipples Soccer Ball (from the series Human Furiery)
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Darío Escobar
Ecce Homo
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