Asterisms – Installation by Gabriel Orozco
Article by Hyathiz
I love my dogs, reading books, and taking great pictures with my battered but still functional digital camera. Taking great pictures with a high end camera is almost too easy, producing fantastic images with an outdated one is an accomplishment by itself.
By Hyathiz on March 3, 2013, in Concept Art
Tags: Asterisms, Astroturf Constellation, Baja California Sur, Berlin, field, Gabriel Orozco, Gabriel Orozco Asterisms, Guggenheim Museum, Mexico, Mobile Matrix, New York, objects, studio, thread
Tags: Asterisms, Astroturf Constellation, Baja California Sur, Berlin, field, Gabriel Orozco, Gabriel Orozco Asterisms, Guggenheim Museum, Mexico, Mobile Matrix, New York, objects, studio, thread
Gabriel Orozco’s “Asterisms” is a sculptural and photographic installation made up of nearly 1,200 objects the artist collected from a protected coastal biosphere in Baja California Sur, Mexico and a playing field near his home in New York. There’s also twelve, large-scale gridded photographs of the individual objects in a studio setting, organized typologically by material, color, and size. The peice was displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin.
Learn more about the artist here.
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