Gabriel Orozco

A comprehensive volume devoted to the major Gabriel Orozco exhibition held in Mexico City. The first overview of Orozco's practice in Mexico in more than fifteen years, this major exhibition occupies the entirety of the Museo Jumex. Curated by Briony Fer, the exhibition takes a thematic approach to the artist's practice over the past thirty years. Each floor focuses on different aspects of Orozco's constantly evolving body of work, including relations of work and world, space and time, provisionality and process. This long-overdue publication will feature an essay by Fer and an in-depth conversation between the artist and Benjamin Buchloh, accompanied by illustrations of Orozco's masterpieces. The exhibition and publication aim to provide a comprehensive exploration of Orozco's artistic journey, highlighting key pieces from his diverse body of work, including sculptures, installations, and paintings. This initiative reflects Museo Jumex's commitment to showcasing contemporary art and fostering deeper engagement with influential artists like Orozco. Orozco's works have been included in the permanent collection of several museum institutions such as the P rez Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Aspen Art Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Noguchi Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Tate, London; and Museo Reina Sofia, Spain.

Selections from Gabriel Orozco's notebooks: sketches, photographs, and texts that offer a rare look inside his art-making process. Written Matter presents selections from the notebooks of the prolific and celebrated artist Gabriel Orozco. These texts, sketches, and images from notebooks spanning 1992 to 2012 offer insights into Orozco's artmaking process, revealing his thinking, methods, and rationales. The texts, translated from the original handwritten Spanish, offer personal truisms, compelling insights, observations, and notes on process and method, forming a subterranean stream that runs parallel to his artwork. "Art is the opposite of spectacle," he writes. "Art does not try to convince anyone, that's why it's shocking." The notebooks are fundamental to Orozco's work, serving as a travelogue and personal dictionary that, when consulted, allow him to resume the trajectory of his thought anywhere. Because Orozco chooses not to work in a studio, his notebooks act as a different kind of studio space, on paper and bound between covers. Orozco works in a variety of media-drawing, installation, photography, sculpture, video. His notebooks reveal and revel in the style and substance of his art. Profusely illustrated and designed under Orozco's art direction, Written Matter offers an unusually intimate look at an artist's process and practice.