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| Black Kites, 1997, Graphite on skull |
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco has returned for his first major show on the UK since 2004. His art is observant of the mundane and rooted in everyday life. Orozco does not work in a studio and works with materials and situations as he finds them. ‘For me what is important is not so much what people see in the show,’ says Orozco, ‘it’s what you see after…how your perception of reality is changed…’
His reflections on mortality, the fleeting and the absurd stay with you on leaving the exhibition; things that had become invisible through familiarity are brought into sharper focus. This is not autonomous self-enclosed idealized art; Orozco’s practice is part the real lived world.
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