Damián Ortega: Expanded View (Libros de autor.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8418934476 ISBN 13: 9788418934476

Publisher: La Fábrica, 2023

Synopsis

Found, deconstructed, suspended: on Ortega’s dramatic and satirical airborne art

Before Mexican sculptor Damián Ortega (born 1967) rose to prominence in the contemporary art world, he was a political cartoonist. This transition was intuitive for Ortega, and his sculptures and installations maintain the piercing, satirical eye required of his former occupation. He is internationally admired for his sculptures that literally deconstruct and reconfigure commercial products such as Coke bottles or, in one of his most celebrated works, a Volkswagen Beetle. Ortega presents these vernacular objects in precise arrangements that cohere into witty representations of diagrams, faces, words and buildings. Many of these pieces, however, are suspended in the air; by virtue of the space between the objects, the resulting representations appear fragmented.
This catalog, published alongside the exhibition at Centro Botín, exclusively displays these suspended works.

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About the Author

Damián Ortega: (1967, Ciudad de México) comenzó su carrera como caricaturista político. Se unió al «Taller de los viernes» con Gabriel Orozco de 1987 a 1992. En 2005 fue nominado para el Hugo Boss Prize y en 2007 fue nominado al Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst. En 2014 recibió la Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship por parte de Smithsonian Institution y en 2006 realizó una residencia artística en Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) en Berlín. Es el creador de la Editorial Alias especializada en libros de arte. Vive y trabaja en Ciudad de México.

Edition details

• Publisher: La Fábrica
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8418934476
• ISBN 13: 9788418934476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 186