Boomerangs with the scraps of raw wood from which they were carved. The shapes float and hover in the space as if the act of throwing a boomerang has been caught in stages and suspended onto the walls, moving the viewer’s eye and body in a circle around the room. Continue reading Gabriel Orozco
guggenheim . photos: © Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin . + artishock
Gabriel Orozco’s Asterisms, the final project of the commissioning program at Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, is a two-part sculptural and photographic installation comprising thousands of items of detritus the artist has gathered at two sites—a playing field near his home in New York -Astroturf Constellation- and a protected coastal biosphere in Baja California Sur, Mexico -Sandstars-, that is also the repository for flows of industrial and commercial waste from across the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading Gabriel Orozco
