Director, Glenn Lowry: Hello, I’m Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art. I'm pleased to welcome you to the exhibition, Gabriel Orozco.
Gabriel Orozco was born in Jalapa, Mexico in 1962. He attended to art school in Mexico City and came to New York in 1992. After spending the 1990s traveling around to world to make and exhibit art, he now divides his time primarily between New York, Mexico, and France. As you will see, Orozco’s work takes form in sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography, as well as objects that fit none of these categories. His work was part of a widespread tendency in the 1990s to challenge expectations of what exactly constitutes a work of art.
On this program, you’ll hear from Ann Temkin, the Marie Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture and the organizer of this exhibition.
Curator, Ann Temkin: Over the past few years, we’ve been much more eager to [show] artists who are really in the thick of their career. And, who have proved instrumental in changing art history, not 40 years ago, or even 30 years ago, but 15 or 20 years ago.
Glenn Lowry: You’ll also hear from the artist himself.
Artist, Gabriel Orozco: What I enjoy about art is that you can see reality different after you look at a work of art. It’s not so much what happens in the museum right there with the work, but also what happens afterwards, what people takes from the experience of looking at the work, then they can use it as a tool for experiencing reality in a different way.
Glenn Lowry: The exhibition is located on the sixth floor and continues on the second floor in the Atrium and Prints and Illustrated Books galleries. For detailed instructions on using this Acoustiguide, press 1-0-1 and the ‘play’ button at any time.