I found this today on a terrific blog about art goings-on in New York City, ArtAndDesign.LelaLuxe.com. I was looking for more info on artists from/in Baja, but regular readers know I usually mention some of what’s happening in NYC here, too.
Mobile Matrix, a Monumental Sculpture of Reassembled Whale Bones, Is on View for the First Time Outside Mexico, in MoMA’s Second-Floor Atrium
Gabriel Orozco
December 13, 2009–March 1, 2010
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth floorMobile Matrix (2006), a monumental sculpture composed of a reassembled gray-whale skeleton, is installed on the second floor in the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. Orozco was commissioned to make the sculpture by Mexico’s National Council for Culture and the Arts for its permanent home in the Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City. Its inclusion in this exhibition marks the first time it has been seen outside of that library. After excavating the bones from the Isla Arena in Baja California Sur, Orozco and a team of approximately 20 assistants used some 6,000 mechanical pencils to draw lines on the whale that relate to its structure. Dark solid circles are surrounded by numerous series of concentric rings that overlap and collide with each other.
Explains Ms. Temkin, “Orozco’s transformation of the concept of sculpture—via innumerable mediums and methods—makes him a central figure of his generation.”
Sixteen years after his debut in MoMA’s Projects series, this exhibition explores both the consistency and the surprising evolution of his artistic approach….
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