This week I went on a trip to London and visited the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco exhibition at Tate Modern. This was INCREDIBLE.GO. I love his concepts he uses and the subtle but essential detail with in all of his works and the representation of everyday life is thought-provoking, whilst seeming incredibly fresh. Here are some I loved.
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My Hands Are My Heart, 1991. |
By highlighting the insignificant moments of everyday life in the city and redefining familiar objects, Gabriel Orozco documents and contextualises a world that most people dont given a second thought to. This idea invites visiters to view the everyday world with fresh interpretations, shown in My Hands Are My Heart (1991) that explores the presence of abscence within the bodily space, and in Elevator (1994) that highlights how the internal space of an elevator is the external, public space to the people who use it.
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| Elevator 1994 |
I loved the sense of his work creating something unique from the mundane in Dial Tone (1992) in which Orozco extracts telephone numbers from telephone directories and pastes them into a scroll many metres long. The census of anonymous numbers looks like an ancient scripture, documenting a metropolis of countless unknowns.
Whilst I felt a strong association to the installations and artefact's on display, Orozco's painted geometric compositions have less of an impact. The process that sits at the heart of Orozco's work; collecting found objects and manipulating them to create a new perspective on their value, seems absent. However the process of recreation in the majority of the other pieces makes this exhibition.
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| Dial Tone 1992 |
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'Until You Find Another Yellow Schwalbe', 1995 |
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| Carambole with Pendulum', 1996, purchased by Tate for £152,000 |
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'Four Bicycles (There is Always one Direction)', 1994 |
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'Chicotes', 2010, Orozco's newest work |
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'Black Kites', 1997 |
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'Obituaries', 2008 |
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| 'Lintels' (hanging), 2001, and clay body parts, 2007 |
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