Museo Jumex presents Gabriel Orozco’s first museum exhibition in Mexico since 2006. Orozco is one of Mexico’s leading contemporary artists who has also been a definitive figure in international art for more than three decades, constantly challenging the concept of what art can be, how it is created and what it can do.

Orozco developed his working method in the early 1990s, choosing local and accessible materials, often found or prefabricated, to create spontaneous sculptures and photographs. The wide-ranging media and the processes Orozco employs has seen work to be permeated by the place and moments in which it is created.

Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional is curated by Briony Fer in close collaboration with the artist to trace these lines of flight in Orozco’s practice. The exhibition intertwines techniques that the artist has developed over the years, such as rotation, symmetry and the possibility of giving materiality to time cast new light on his practice.

The exhibition presents a spectrum of different bodies of works by bringing together aspects of his practice that in many cases may be considered contradictory. It includes some 300 works that the artist has produced during his career, from small sculptures to complex installations, between photography and drawing, accompanied by painting, assemblages and games. The exhibition is not definitive, rather conveys turning points in Orozco’s career at a significant moment where the artist’s current artistic panorama has extended it panorama. Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional contemplates how the multiple strands of his practice have grown and interwoven in a constantly innovative way.

Exhibition organized by Museo Jumex. Curated by Briony Fer, Independent Curator, with Carolina Estrada, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.