Gabriel Orozco - 20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction New York Monday, July 17, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Gabriel Orozco, October 22–November 22, 2003 (another example exhibited)
    Norfolk, Chrysler Museum of Art, Photography Speaks, September 4, 2004–January 2, 2005 (another example exhibited)
    New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, May 15–September 3, 2007 (another example exhibited)
    New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, June 25, 2013–January 26, 2014 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Ann Temkin, Gabriel Orozco, New York, 2009, p. 191 (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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Rolling Life's Hand Line

signed, titled, numbered and dated "2/5 ROLLING LIFE'S HAND LINE GABRIEL OROZCO 2003" on the reverse
chromographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive paper
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Executed in 2003, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for $3,810

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20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction

17 - 26 July 2023