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This panel discussion formed part of the interpretation events during Gabriel Orozco, thinking in circles at The Fruitmarket Gallery, 1 August — 26 October 2013. Gabriel Orozco was in conversation with Professor Briony Fer (UCL), curator of thinking in circles and art historian Professor Benjamin Buchloh of Harvard University about Orozco’s practice and the new exhibition.
Gabriel Orozco (born Jalapa, Veracruz, 1962) is one of the foremost international artists of our age. Rising to prominence in the early 1990s, he has developed a consistently innovative practice, making work which not only captures the imagination but also powerfully engages with key material and conceptual issues of what it is to make art.
This new exhibition takes the 2005 painting The Eye of Go as its starting point, and looks at how the circular geometric motif of this painting — part of a way of thinking for Orozco, a way to collect together ideas of structure, organisation and perspective — migrates onto other work, recurring in other paintings, sculptures and photographs.
A highlight of the exhibition is a series of large geometric works on acetate, made in the mid 1990s, yet never before exhibited. Rather than surveying the whole range of Orozco’s practice, the exhibition seeks to cut a conceptual slice through it, to look deeply into the mechanics of the artist’s thinking and working process. Not only does the exhibition propose a different view of Orozco’s major contribution to changes in art in the 1990s but it brings to the fore the urgent problem of art’s ‘makeability’ now.
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Thinking in boxes is better than thinking in circles? If the tires of your car have been clamped, that may be what you'd say to yourself. Like the fox in Aesops' fables – imagining sour grapes as consolation for failure? Certainly better than losing your marbles, which is what circular thinking is likely to do? Problem is that has already happen hasn't it. Loosing mind. So scooping up brains, to put it back into square boxes after the fact, is surely a question of too little, too late. Or else lunacy is also just another elaborate farce and twisted ruse. I should know, I've been diagnosed with schizophrenia myself. By English accredited doctors no less
I have tried to watch this twice now white noise – i am determined to see it through though – In and out i heard them discussing the sphere or circle – the circle has always intrigued me – speaking in two dimension no other accademic form does that to me – not yet – If you don't know what to do next in a painting or drawing and your at your wits end place a sphere or circle there – a circle never not works never! its almost a cheap shot – Sometimes i feel that we are trapped in a sphere – the Earth Moon and Sun spheres – what goes around comes………. – the wheel – its such a useful and functional form –
Am I the only one who thinks Orozco is very much bored?