Gabriel Orozco

by Bois, Yve-Alain; Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. (CON); Fisher, Jean (CON); Brett, Guy (CON); Nesbit, Molly (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780262013185
• ISBN10: 0262013185
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Gabriel Orozco's work is sometimes considered uncategorizable; but his sculpture, photography, drawing, collage, and installations are unified by their devotion to the antispectacular, to the everyday, and to the explorations of complexities that are not immediately obvious. Orozco (born in Mexico in 1962) pays meticulous attention to what he calls the "liquidity of things" as seen in mundane and evanescent objects and elements of everyday life-the momentary fog upon a polished piano top, a deflated football, tins of cat food balanced on watermelons, light through leaves, the screech of a tire, chess pieces on a chessboard. "People forget that I want to disappoint," he has said. "I use that word deliberately. I want to disappoint the expectations of the one who waits to be amazed. When you make a decision someone is going to be disappointed because they think they know you. It is only then that the poetic can happen." This collection of critical writings on Orozco includes two interviews with the artist and a lecture by him (this last published here for the first time in English) as well as essays by such prominent critics as Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Briony Fer, Molly Nesbit, and the editor of the volume, Yve-Alain Bois. It serves both as the summation of critical thinking on Orozco's work up to now and as a starting point for future consideration. October Files

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Refuse and Refuge (1993)	p. 1
The Sleep of Wakefulness: Gabriel Orozco (1993)	p. 17
Gabriel Orozco: The Sculpture of Everyday Life (1996)	p. 31
Between Work and World: Gabriel Orozco (1998)	p. 51
The Tempest (2000)	p. 59
Lecture (2001)	p. 85
Gabriel Orozco in Conversation with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2004)	p. 105
Spirograph: The Circular Ruins of Drawing (2004)	p. 121
Cosmic Reification: Gabriel Orozco's Photographs (2004)	p. 139
Crazy about Saturn: Gabriel Orozco Interviewed by Briony Fer (2006)	p. 157
The Tree and the Knight (2006)	p. 181
Index	p. 201
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