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ART & DESIGN
The Fountain and M asterpieces from Orozco do
Empty Shoe Box: not follow a recognizable
From Marcel Duchamp to trend in medium. He has
used a human skull (Black
Gabriel Orozco Kites, 1997), a Citroën DS (La DS, 1993), a
chessboard with horses (Horses Running
Forever, 1995) and even a whale skeleton
(Mobile Matrix, 2006). For the most part,
Orozco’s focus is not on the artwork itself but
on the change of perception it provokes.
By: Daniel Lozano Maya
Photos: Courtesy Gabriel Orozco & The Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
I n 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted Gabriel Orozco is considered one of the most
a porcelain fixture, entitled talented contemporary artists from Mexico.
Fountain, to an exhibition of the Like Duchamp, his work places the viewer
Society of Independent Artists. under its spell of resignification. More than
Since then, Fountain is seen as a milestone in twenty years ago, Orozco included an empty
art history. For the first time in art, Duchamp box, Empty Shoe Box, 1993 as part of the
assigned more authority to the artist’s idea than Venice Biennale, and other exhibitions: full or
to the work itself. He called these art pieces that empty of meaning - depending on the viewer’s Without a doubt, after Orozco no other
originally came from manufactured objects perspective. shoebox, Citroën DS, or even skeleton can
“readymade.” ever be viewed the same way again.
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