Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional (National Polytechnic)

Starting February 1, Museo Jumex is preparing to present "Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional," the artist's first exhibition in a Mexican museum since 2006. The show explores key themes in the practice of Orozco, who has constantly challenged what art can be and how it is made. Politécnico Nacional" delineates a playing field showing how the artist's multiple techniques and strategies, his 'techniques’-have developed throughout a celebrated career that began in the early 1990s.
From the beginning, Gabriel Orozco (Veracruz, 1962) has been interested in games, both real and imaginary, and especially in the precarious relationship between the rules of the game and the effects of chance. Orozco has always questioned the relationship between art, nature, and the planet.
For the exhibition, the spaces of the Museo Jumex become a multi-layered apparatus that creates connections, not only to show how the artist's early works relate to his most recent projects but to explore the connection between art and the everyday objectual world we inhabit. Air, earth, and water become working elements with which to think rather than immutable transcendental essences. In the process, Orozco activates a cosmology of matter and objects, always in motion and circulation.
A new outdoor version of Orozco's Ping Pong Table (1998) will be installed in the plaza of the Museo Jumex for the exhibition. People will be able to play with this piece, which features two ping-pong tables cut and arranged around an artificial pond.
"Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional" is organized by Museo Jumex and curated by Briony Fer, who has been one of the leading interlocutors and scholars of Orozco's work for over two decades. Fer is a Professor of Art History at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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