Gabriel Orozco

portrait by Magnus Unnar

man, play, and games

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM and ALEXIS DAHAN
portrait by MAGNUS UNNAR

All works are courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris and Kurimanzutto, Mexico

 

Gabriel Orozco is a traveler, an artist inspired by materials and opportunity. Born in Mexico in 1962 to an artist, the product of a leftist society, he was sent to alternative schools, and his life began, like the lives of many kids, with chess playing and soccer. He began by walking, thinking, noticing, traveling (he and his father are francophiles). He lives in Mexico and New York City — taking pictures and making uncommon objects out of clay and terracotta, such as his hands for My Hands Are My Heart (1991). He narrowed the entire cross-section of a Citroën DS, for his seminal La DS (1993). He calculated geometrical…