Two Decades of Work Includes Drawing, Photography, Sculpture, Installation, and Painting
Gabriel Orozco: Yielding Stone ©2009 Gabriel Orozco - Courtesy of MoMA
EXHIBITION: Gabriel Orozco
DATES: December 13, 2009–March 1, 2010
LOCATION: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth floor
ORGANIZATION: Ann Temkin, Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
PRESS PREVIEW: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
NEW YORK, September 29, 2009—Since the early 1990s, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) has forged a career marked by constant surprise and innovation. He roams freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, and painting, creating a heterogeneous body of objects that resists categorization. Sixteen years after The Museum of Modern Art organized Projects 41: Gabriel Orozco (1993)—the artist’s first solo museum show—MoMA presents the mid- career retrospective exhibition Gabriel Orozco, examining two decades of the artist’s career. In this time, Orozco has produced an extraordinarily varied body of objects, ranging from subtle interventions in the landscape to meticulously executed sculptures and quick snapshots. In all of his work, art intermingles with reality, and idea is inseparable from experience.
Many of Orozco’s works have become indisputable classics of the art of the 1990s, such as the Citroën automobile surgically reduced to two-thirds its normal width (La DS, 1993), and the human skull covered with a graphite grid (Black Kites, 1997). This exhibition will provide the opportunity for many of these works to be seen for the first time in New York. A rich selection of objects, drawings, paintings, and photographs will complement and provide a context for Orozco’s large sculptures and installations. The exhibition highlights the diversity of Orozco’s materials and the variety of his methods while presenting an oeuvre that is unique in formal power and intellectual rigor.
Also included in the exhibition are the well-known sculptures and installations My Hands Are My Heart (1991), Yielding Stone (1992), Elevator (1994), Four Bicycles (There Is Always One Direction) (1994), Yogurt Caps (1994), Lintels (2001), and Working Tables, 2000-2005 (2005).
SPONSORSHIP:
Major support for the exhibition is provided by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), and Fundación Televisa, Mexico.
Additional funding is provided by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation and by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley.
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