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30/6/2004

Gabriel Orozco

Serpentine Gallery, London

Gabriel Orozco has been described as 'the leading conceptual and installation artist of his generation' by critic Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. His work encompasses myriad forms, ideas and materials and has consistently challenged the possibilities of what art can be.

This Serpentine Gallery exhibition is the first presentation of Orozco's art in a London public gallery since 1996, and brings together new and existing work made between 1992 and the present.

It traces and links many of his approaches to making art and, in doing so, reveals the duality at the core of his practice – he is as interested in structures and systems as he is in experimentation and chance, and this exhibition reflects his highly intellectual yet poetic and sensual approach.

The work in the exhibition, selected in close collaboration with the artist, reveals a visual vocabulary that is often based on geometric patterns and their permutations. It also reflects Orozco's preoccupation with the relationships between mechanical and human forms, found and made objects, and nature and debris.

Dividing the majority of his time between Mexico City, Paris and New York, Orozco works without a formal studio, instead responding to the places, situations and materials at hand. He approaches art-making with an openness that allows meticulous analysis as much as spontaneity to infuse the work.

Tiqui Atencio and Ago Demirdjian
Howard and Donna Stone
National Council for Culture and
the Arts in Mexico (CONACULTA)
Catherine Orentreich

Image: Gabriel Orozco
Vitral (Afternoon Kites in Jaipur) 1998
Cibachrome © 2004 Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco
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London Underground
Poster Project

Gabriel Orozco has designed a poster that will appear throughout the London Underground during the summer. This poster features a photograph of kites in a tree, a situation he encountered while travelling in India. It will appear at random on the Underground, echoing the element
of chance in Orozco's work.

This is the second collaboration between the Serpentine and London Underground's Platform for Art programme, following the success of last year's Cindy Sherman Billboard Commission at Gloucester Road.
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Gabriel Orozco
in conversation with
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Thursday 1 July, 7pm
Goethe Institut,
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road, London SW7

Tickets: £5 (£3 concessions)
Book via Ticketweb on 08700 600100, Serpentine tel 020 7402 6075 or from Gallery lobby desk

To coincide with his Serpentine Gallery exhibition, Gabriel Orozco will talk with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Virginia B. Wright Professor of Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, about his work.
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Catalogue
Gabriel Orozco will be accompanied by a catalogue surveying key aspects of the artist's practice. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Virginia B. Wright Professor of Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, has contributed a text focused on Orozco's photographs; Briony Fer, Reader in the History of Art, University College London has written about the artist's drawings
and Rochelle Steiner, Chief Curator at the Serpentine and curator of the exhibition, has contributed an essay that provides an overview of Orozco's work focusing
on his sculpture.

Designed by Luc Derycke in collaboration with the artist, this publication is co-published and distributed by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
£ 25
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Limited Edition

In conjunction with his Serpentine exhibition Gabriel Orozco has produced a limited edition print based on an unpublished photograph
of his seminal sculpture, Black Kites, 1997.

To create the sculpture featured, the artist meticulously drew a grid pattern using graphite onto a human skull.

Orozco deliberately makes the media in which he works ambiguous – whether drawing, sculpture or photography. B.K.I. encompasses all of these media, with the skull acting as an unconventional ground for a drawing, and the image itself a photograph taken by the artist.

Orozco's work is highly sought after and this Serpentine Gallery Limited Edition represents a unique collecting opportunity.

Edition of 175
Signed and numbered by the artist.

Price: £400 inclusive of VAT

For further information:
Vicky Steer
Tel 020 7298 1511
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Gallery Talks

An introduction to the work of Gabriel Orozco
Saturdays 3pm
Admission free

3 July Mark Godfrey, art historian
10 July Claire Fitzsimmons, curator
17 July Gabriela Salgado, curator
24 July Edgar Schmitz, artist, BSL interpreted
31 July Ben Jones, art historian
7 August Martin Clark, curator
14 August Jessica Morgan, curator
21 August Bruce Haines, curator
28 August Sally O'Reilly, writer

Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens W2 3XA
London

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