Gabriel Orozco

GABRIEL OROZCO

edited by Yve-Alain Bois

essays and interviews by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jean Fisher, Guy Brett, Molly Nesbit, Gabriel Orozco, Briony Fer, and Yve-Alain Bois

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Gabriel Orozco / edited by Yve-Alain Bois. p. cm.—(October ﬁ les) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0- 262- 01318-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0- 262- 51301-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Orozco, Gabriel, 1962—Criticism and interpretation. I. Orozco, Gabriel, 1962–. II. Bois, Yve-Alain. N6559.O76G33 2009 709.2—dc22 2009003625

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Index

Acconci, Vito, 140 Breath on Piano, 100, 124, 148 Albers, Joseph, 186, 198n25 Buchloh, Benjamin, 52, 59–60, 65, 70, 73, Andre, Carl, 10, 36 77, 126, 181 An Island within an Island, 65, 75, 99 Buren, Daniel, 48 Aristotle, 77 Arman, 34–36, 41 Cadere, André, 70 Arp, Jean, 185 Cage, John, 61–63, 77, 82n52, 142, 144, Asher, Michael, 39 158, 190, 193 At the Cotton Factory, 142, 144–145 Cats and Watermelons, 142, 161 At the Door of the Volcano, 144 Cazuelas, 109, 169, 175 Atomists series, 69–70, 118, 129, 144, 148, Cennini, Cennino, 183 150–152, 154–155, 161, 163 Chamberlain, John, 34 Auerbach, Eric, 181 Chantal Crousel Galerie, 61 Cheung, Maggie, 76 Baldessari, John, 139–140 Clark, Lygia, 159 Barthes, Roland, 32, 42 Cornell, Joseph, 35 Bat Dog, 148 Covarrubias, Miguel, 1–2 Baudrillard, Jean, 20, 32 Cragg, Tony, 7, 52, 158 Becher, Bernd and Hilla, 140 Crazy Tourist, 9, 25, 35, 37–39, 56, 86, 142, Benjamin, Walter, 132, 155n1 144, 158 Beuys, Joseph, 107 Bhabha, Homi, 3 Damisch, Hubert, 193 Blackboards series, 131 Delaunay, Robert, 115, 151, 153–154 Black Kites (Skullpture), 65–67, 125, 164– Deleuze, Gilles, 77, 123 165, 176 Delta Tail, 170 Blanchot, Maurice, 27 Democritus, 68–69, 71–72, 77 Bohm, David, 27–28 De Reyes, Alfonso, 68 Borges, Jorge Luis, 17, 20, 27, 67, 68–69, Desnos, Robert, 31 74, 77, 134 De Zegher, Catherine, 161 Brancusi, Constantin, 8, 36, 139, 153 Dial Tone, 28 Breathing Drawings, 124. See also Breath on Dining Room in Tepoztlán, 147 Piano Discos Dados, 134–135 202 Index

Documenta X, 65, 99, 175 Huebler, Douglas, 139–140 Dog in Tlalpan, 148 Huerta, General Victoriano, 11 Double Tail, 110–111 Hugo of Saint Victor, 181 Duchamp, Marcel, 7, 33, 36, 53, 71–72, 74, 76–77, 80n34, 112–113, 115, 139, 152, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), 61 156n1, 177, 182, 193, 196 Jaipur Kites, 171 Eco, Umberto, 24 Johns, Jasper, 115–116, 154, 184. See also Eggeling, Viking, 197n16 Samurai Tree Elevator, 87, 97 Judd, Donald, 10, 108 El Lissitzky, 151, 154 Empty Shoe Box, 56–57, 87, 95 Kahlo, Frida, 173 Encountered Bodies, 22, 24 Kanaal Art Foundation, 60–61 Engels, Friedrich, 73 Kelly, Ellsworth, 119, 124, 171 Extension of a Reﬂ ection, 64, 89, 130 Kelly’s Kites series, 171 Klein, Yves, 53 Felman, Shosana, 4n3 Kounellis, Jannis, 48, 144 Fer, Briony, 183 Kracauer, Siegfried, 150 Fisher, Jean, 51, 54 Kwangju Biennale (1995), 172 Fontana, Lucio, 41, 109 Foucault, Michel, 21 La DS, 35–36, 40, 42–45, 48, 87, 101, 111, From Roof to Roof, 142–143 126, 162, 165, 170–171 Fulton, Hamish, 7 Laub, Dori, 4n3 Léger, Fernand, 151 Gabo, Naum, 152 Leucippus, 77 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, 48, 57 Le Va, Barry, 37 Game Boxes, 115 Levi-Strauss, Claude, 136 Gaudí, Antonio, 7 LeWitt, Sol, 194 Giacometti, Alberto, 53–54, 56, 196 Light Sign, 95–96 Graham, Dan, 139–140 Ligne d’abandon, 61 Greco, Alberto, 53 Lintels, 112, 142–143 Greenberg, Clement, 182 Lippard, Lucy, 186 Green Paper, 140 Long, Richard, 7, 25 Guattari, Felix, 77 Gursky, Andreas, 139 Malevich, Kasimir, 115, 151, 173, 196 Man Ray, 113 Haacke, Hans, 7 Manzoni, Piero, 7–8, 112, 125–126, 174 Habemus Vespam, 36, 40 Marey, Etienne- Jules, 151 Habermas, Jürgen, 32 Maria, 156n2 Havre Caumartin, 131 Marian Goodman Gallery, 73–75, 90, Heartﬁ eld, John, 2, 4 142–143, 161, 164, 169, 174 Hegel, 62 Marx, Karl, 20, 73, 76 Heidegger, Martin, 62–63, 68 Matta- Clark, Gordon, 35, 41 Hesse, Eva, 107, 112, 115, 156n3 Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 196 Höch, Hannah, 44 Medalla, David, 53 Holty, Carl, 192 Meireles, Cildo, 159 Home Run, 37–39, 56, 61 Mendez, Leopoldo, 2 Horse, 11–12, 148 Mixiotes, 167–169 Horses Running Endlessly, 79n30, 190–191 Mobile Matrix, 178 House and Rain, 142, 148 Moholy- Nagy, Laszló, 146 Mondrian, Piet, 115, 117, 119–120, 154, Rockefeller, Nelson A., 15n2 183, 186–189, 190, 191–196 Rodchenko, Alexander, 129–130, 151, Moon Tree, 166 153, 174 Moore, Henry, 60 Rubbed Bricks, 25–26 Morris, Robert, 36 Ruscha, Ed, 139–140 Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City), 61 Ruskin, John, 121–123, 125 Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), 97 Said, Edward, 181 Museum of Modern Art (New York), 1, 2, Samurai Tree, 117, 174–175, 187–188, 191 37–38, 56, 61, 90, 93, 97, 157 Sand Balls, 18 Muybridge, Eadweard, 151 Sand on Table, 51–52 My Hand Is the Memory of Space, 7, 19, 28 Saussure, Ferdinand de, 188–190, 192–193, My Hands Are My Heart, 5–6, 18–19, 194 35–36, 54, 94, 108, 164 Scarpa, Carlo, 126, 177 Scarry, Elaine, 20 National Gallery (Berlin), 49n5 Schwitters, Kurt, 82n52, 133, 185 Nauman, Bruce, 5, 36, 52, 107–108, 111 Serpent, 22 Newman, Barnett, 154 Serpentine Gallery, 108, 114, 172 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 69, 72, 75 Serra, Richard, 10, 13, 32, 34–36, 52, 60, Nude, 22 76, 107–108 Shade between Rings of Air, 126–127 Observatory House, 179 Shakespeare, William, 59, 82n48 Oiticica Hélio, 53, 56, 159 Shklovsky, Viktor, 196 Open Body, 19, 22 Sleeping Boundaries, 27 Orange without Space, 103 Sleeping Dog, 27, 148–149 Oval Billiard Table, 56 Sleeping Leaves, 22, 27 Spinning and Rotating, 117 Parking Lot, 48, 56–57 Spoerri, Daniel, 115 Pascal, Blaise, 74 Spumes, 167, 169 Path of Thought, 166 Stella, Frank, 194 Penone, Giuseppe, 13, 35 Stones in the Fence, 86 Penske Project, 75–76, 142, 163 Strzeminski, Wladyslaw, 186, 188 Perec, Georges, 132, 135 Sundial Banana, 178–179 Picabia, Francis, 41 Suzuki, D. T., 62 Picasso, Pablo, 68 Sweeney, James Johnson, 192 Pinched Ball, 54, 55, 103 Pistoletto, Michelangelo, 35 Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 156n3 Pollock, Jackson, 41 Tantra, 119, 183 Posada, Jose Guadalupe, 11, 126 Tatlin, Vladimir, 196 Puddles series, 129–130, 135 There Is Always One Direction, 94–95 Pyrrhus, 72 Three Containers, 176 Tip of Tongues, 22–23 Rauschenberg, Robert, 62, 76 Tomkins, Calvin, 72 Recaptured Nature, 7–9, 18, 22, 28, 36, Total Perception, 144–145 86–87, 94, 108, 170 Tunga, 159 Red Air, 133 Twombly, Cy, 124 Richter, Hans, 197n16 Riefenstahl, Leni, 155 Until You Find Another Yellow Schwalbe, 36, Rivera, Diego, 15n2 40, 44–47, 126 Rocha, Manuel, 61 Untitled (First Was the Spitting IV), 126, 128

Index 203 204 Index

van Doesburg, Theo, 193, 194 Vasarely, Victor, 118 Venice Biennale (1993), 57, 61, 87–88, 90, 107, 126, 177 Vep, Irma, 76

Waiting Chairs, 147 Wall, Jeff, 139 Warhol, Andy, 33, 142 Wet Watch, 142, 148 Whitman, Walt, 68 Working Tables, 95, 101–102

Yielding Stone, 9, 26, 36, 54, 59, 60–61, 92, 94, 113, 157, 159–160, 167, 170–171 Yogurt Caps, 90–91, 142

Zürich Kunsthalle, 60