Damian Ortega
Damian Ortega was born 1967 BirthMexico City, Mexico.
Lives and works in HomeMexico City.
Categories: Installation art Sculpture Objects Postminimalism
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Damián Ortega’s first United States solo museum exhibition, Cosmic Thing, is an extended and humorous meditation on one of Mexico’s most potent symbols of Westernization and mass production: the Volkswagen Beetle…
In addition to fantasy and the possible illusions created by forms, Damián Ortega nevertheless seeks to subtly alter the syntax or everyday objects and their signification…
There is a childlike delight to be had in knocking over a row of dominos…
The wit that characterised Damián Ortega’s former career as a political cartoonist is also apparent in his art. In one sculpture shown here, what looks like an elegant model of a molecular structure turns out to be composed of tortillas — a reference to Ortega’s native Mexico. In the work Margin of Accident/Running Gag, a chair appears to catapult backwards through space…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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