Gabriel Orozco – Mexican artist

Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican post minimalist artist. He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas between 1981 and 1984. He then sustained his education in Madrid at the Circulo de Bellas Artes between 1986 and 1987.

Exploring the use of video, drawings, and installations in addition to his photographs and sculptures, Orozco allows the audience’s imagination to explore the imaginative associations between oft-ignored objects in today’s world. His work permits a rarely allowed interface between the artwork and the audience.

For instance, visitors at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California could play a four person game of table tennis on Orozco’s Ping Pond Table (1998). The work’s center is a lily pond with four semi-circular ping pong table pieces set in a clover shape approximately it.

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