Articles of ‘Gabriel Orozco’

Gabriel Orozco: Relational Reinterpretation

Gabriel Orozco
Galería KuriManzutto, Mexico City
April 29 - June 13, 2009
By Thiago Alves
At the end of the last decade Galería KuriManzutto made a high-risk decision to support experimental visuality and relational art. Since then, the outcome has been consistent: it restored self-referential individualism, simulation as an ideo-artistic reconstruction and, above all, it validated impurity, contamination and [...]



Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

November 4, 2008-March 22, 2009
Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography
More than any other type of picture, photographs seem to have a direct and natural connection to visible reality. “Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography” surveys the ways in which artists exploit illusionism in photography to blur the distinction between what is [...]