Lot 10
10
Gabriel Orozco (B. 1962)
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Gabriel Orozco (B. 1962)

Aliento sobre piano (Breath on Piano)

Details
Gabriel Orozco (B. 1962)
Aliento sobre piano (Breath on Piano)
signed, titled, numbered and dated '1/5 ALIENTO SOBRE PIANO GABRIEL OROZCO' (on the reverse)
chromogenic colour print
sheet: 16 x 20in. (40.6 x 50.8cm.)
image: 12 3/8 x 18¾in. (31.5 x 47.5cm.)
Executed in 1993, this work is number one from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs
Provenance
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993.
Literature
F. Bonami, 'Back in Five Minutes', in Parkett, no. 48, December 1996 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 44-45).
Y.-A. Blois (ed.), 'Gabriel Orozco', in October Files, no. 9, Cambridge 2009, pp. 100, 124 and 148, no. 34 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 124).
C. Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, London 2009, p. 245 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 112).
Exhibited
London, The South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, The Epic & The Everyday, 1994 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, unpaged).
London, The Devonshire Club, Gabriel Orozco: Empty Club, 1996 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 24).
Zurich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Gabriel Orozco, 1996.
London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Gabriel Orozco, 1996-1997. This exhibition later travelled to Berlin, DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst.
Zurich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Auf der Spur: Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen, 1998.
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Gabriel Orozco, 2000-2001, p. 198 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 58-59). This exhibition later travelled to Mexico City, Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo and Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Versiones del sur: Cinco Propuestas en Torno al Arte en America, 2000-2001.
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Hautnah. Die Sammlung Goetz, 2002 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 70).
London, Serpentine Gallery, Gabriel Orozco, 2004, p. 166 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 16).
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Gabriel Orozco: Extension of Reflection, 2004, p. 169 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 31).
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Gabriel Orozco, 2006-2007, p. 350 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 58).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Gabriel Orozco, 2009-2011, p. 244 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 36 and 76). This exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne and London, Tate Modern.
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012, p. 222 (illustrated in colour, p. 125). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Gabriel Orozco: Natural Motion, 2013 (another from the edition exhibited).
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Lot Essay

I don't believe that a bigger object is more powerful than a smaller one. I don't think that size is all that matters, because there's also the effect of time, especially when we analyze a small gesture, like a wisp of breath on a piano, that can have a stronger impact on our memory than a skyscraper ever could. I think the smallest gestures that we make in our lives can have much greater repercussions than some things we might consider to be more forceful. You can say the same thing about your house: maybe there's a hotel that you only stayed at once, but the memory of that hotel could be much more important to you than the house where you've lived for years'
(G. Orozco, quoted in C. Boullosa, 'Gabriel Orozco', in BOMB Magazine, Issue 98, Winter 2007).

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