Gabriel Orozco
Gifted Collector of the Mundane By Adriana SzkolnikCollector of the mundane discovers art where most of us see everyday reality.
Since Gabriel Orozco’s solo debut at New York's MOMA in 1993, the artist has had over twenty solo exhibitions worldwide, a fairly staggering number for a relatively young artist. However, his talent is in proportion to his fame. More than any Mexican artist since Diego Rivera, Orozco has transcended the country of his birth to become an internationalist member of the worldwide avant-garde community. Living and working in Mexico City, New York and Paris, Orozco uses the entire world as his studio; his work most often reflects the location in which it was made by searching out and discovering art where most of us see only everyday reality. His work combines conceptual art, installations, sculpture, painting and photography; the common bond is the artist's use of everyday materials and found objects that capture small, teasing fragments of modern urban life. His fixations are those of a man desperately collecting what others see as ordinary or even beneath notice, in order to capture how we live today so others may someday see how we once were. Crucially, however, this collector of the mundane leavens his work with refreshing humor and empathy.
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