Gabriel Orozco

A panel discussion from 2013, between artist Gabriel Orozco, curator Briony Fer and art historian Benjamin Buchloh, chaired by Fruitmarket’s director Fiona Bradley.

Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican artist who lives and works mainly in Tokyo and Mexico City. His work blurs the boundaries of art with everyday realities and often balances complex geometry with organic materials and elements of chance.

 

In 2013 Fruitmarket showed Gabriel Orozco's exhibition Thinking in Circles, which was curated by Briony Fer. The exhibition took Orozco’s 2005 painting The Eye of Go as its starting point, and looked at how the circular geometric motif of this painting – part of a way of thinking for Orozco, a way to organise ideas – migrates onto other work, recurring in other paintings, sculptures and photographs.

Through the exhibition and in her accompanying essay, Fer asked how far it is possible to think with the work rather than about it.

 

You can find out more about the Thinking in Circles show at Fruitmarket’s online archive, and the book produced to accompany the exhibition is still available from our online bookshop.

 

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