Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962)
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Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962)

Before the Waiting Dog

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Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962)
Before the Waiting Dog
(i) signed, titled, numbered and dated '10/10 PERRO PLÁTANOS GABRIEL OROZCO 1993' (on the reverse)
(ii)-(v) consecutively titled, numbered and dated '10/10 FRUTAS FEAS, NIÑO Y GATO, NIÑO CON MELONES, GATO EN ALGODONES 1993' (on the reverse)
(i)-(v) chromogenic colour print, in five parts
(vi) VHS in a collaged printed card box
(i)-(v) image: 3 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (10 x 15cm.)
(i)-(v) sheet: 7 7/8 x 10in.(20 x 25.5cm.)
(vi): 3 x 11 ¼ x 9in. (7.6 x 28.5 x 22.8cm.)
Executed in 1993, this work is number ten from an edition of ten
Provenance
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.
Literature
Gabriel Orozco, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2009, pp. 79-81.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gabriel Orozco, 2000-2001, p. 199 (another from the edition exhibited, (i) illustrated in colour, pp. 126-127). This exhibition later travelled to Mexico City, Museo Internacional Rufino Tamayo and Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey.
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Public Affairs. Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das Öffentlichein der Kunst, 2002, no. 59, p. 109.
London, Tate Modern, Common Wealth, 2003, p. 34 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour pp. 36-38 and 41).
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012, p. 221 (illustrated in colour, p. 123). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
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