Museo Jumex presents Gabriel Orozco’s first museum exhibition in Mexico since 2006. Orozco is one of Mexico’s leading contemporary artists who has also been a definitive figure in international art for more than three decades, constantly challenging the concept of what art can be, how it is created and what it focuses on.
Orozco developed his working method in the early 1990s, choosing local and accessible materials, often found or prefabricated, to create spontaneous sculptures and photographs. These fortuitous finds allowed his work to be permeated by the place where it was created.
Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional has been organized by the artist in close collaboration with curator Briony Fer to trace lines of flight in Orozco’s practice. The exhibition intertwines techniques that the artist has developed over the years, such as the ability to rotate, the concept of symmetry and the possibility of giving materiality to time.
The exhibition presents a wide spectrum of different types of works by bringing together practices that in many cases would be considered contradictory. It includes around 300 works that the artist has produced during his career, from small sculptures to complex installations, between photography and drawing, accompanied by painting, sculpture, assemblages and games. The exhibition is not categorical, as it corresponds to a turning point and an opportunity to review Orozco’s current artistic panorama. For this, it is important to contemplate how the multiple strands of his practice have grown and interwoven in a constantly innovative way.
Exhibition organized by Museo Jumex. Curated by Briony Fer, Independent Curator, with Carolina Estrada, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.