15 Sep 2010Gabriel Orozco’s extensive retrospective tour travels to the Centre Pompidou this September. Composed of over eighty works, this will be the first major solo show by Orozco in Paris since 1998.
Viewers can expect to see Orozco tackling prominent themes of reconfiguration, exploring his interest in dissolving the line between environment and object or indeed environment and 'function'. Orozco's trademark spherical forms and circulatory themes will also feature.
Works on display will include 'My Hands Are My Heart' (1991), in which Orozco leaves his own imprint on a clay heart shaped object, moulded and pressed by hand. Placed in front of a photographic Diptych, the viewer can witness how the heart was made. Also in the show will be 'Elevator' (1994), 'Horses Running Endlessly' (1995) and 'La Ds' (1993), where Orozco cut a Citroën longitudinally into three pieces, removing the engine and the middle segment and re-joining the outer two, redefining the original object.
The show has previously toured from the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Kunstmuseum Basel and will next travel to Tate Modern, London in January 2011.
Gabriel Orozco
Centre Pompidou
Paris Cedex 04
15 September 2010 – 3 January 2011
