field trip - mexican artist, gabriel orozco at the museum of modern art…
in the second floor atrium space of the moma hangs a whale skeleton. on the second floor, adjacent to the room of monet’s water lilies are hundreds of colorful geometric variations (see below). on the top floor next to the bauhaus exhibition, is a full exposé on his work which defines gabriel orozco’s multifarious work as it defies an artist’s attempt to master one arena. he does not confine himself to one medium, applying his artistic outlets across drawing, painting, sculpture, installations, photography and more.
i particularly enjoyed his samarai tree prints which take a pattern consisting of overlapping circles and squares defined by only four colors: white, gold, red and blue. each shape “grows” from the other with help from a computer generated graph that alters the color of each shape to create only a slight variation from one print to the next. the samurai tree room:
art means so many things to different people, making it impossible to define. but i define it simply as something that makes you think: “how did he/she do that?” it is not a question of whether it is beautiful or not, it is a question of whether thought was put in to its creation. is there a meaning? what is he/she trying to accomplish? what are my feelings as a result? while viewing and experiencing gabriel orozco’s work, i was constantly asking myself these questions, and i hope you do to.
show ends on march 1st!
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