Headline Oct27,2012/

''FROM THE 'CRANIUM': 

A MOCK CHESSBOARD!''

He likes football and things that are left over. He likes making constructivist paintings using circles and spheres, dividing them into quarters and painting them in primary colours.

He likes funny shapes that could be based on leaves, or bits of bones, or bits of the body. He likes pots, boxes, packaging kites, urban decay and architectural plans. He makes tables with beautiful display of collections of stray objects. He has made some wonderful collages using banknotes and old aeroplane tickets. He has messed around with sports photographs.


While some of his pieces, including drawings, are delicate;other pieces are iconic. His ''ping pong'' table of 1998 has water lilies and and water in the middle of it, as well as two ping pong bats at each end and some some ping pong balls. His chessboard has only knights. He has put the skeleton of huge whale decorated with graphite into the library in Mexico city.


His best known piece is probably ''Black Kites'' 1997, done with graphite squares on a human skull. He left the teeth alone, but worked -it took six months- right into the eye sockets, making a sort of meticulous  mock chessboard out of what is, after all, a ready-made mass produced object the Cranium.
He took a Citroen car in  in 1993 and halved it in size and then put it back together again.He has made ''Yielding Stone''  1992, a plasticine his own weight, which picks up the shape and texture of anything it rolls over.

He has taken great photographs of objects placed on top of each other, including cans of cat food on top of the watermelon. And his masterpiece is a little tree growing out of a 'Public Toilet'  -which is hilarious!! And a bubble resting on a upturned foot -which is wonderfully tender.


Orozco is important and worthwhile because he has taken a number of dead-ends and dead beginings in art, such as constructivism, conceptualism, arte povera, installation, minimalism, performance art, foun objects and computer generated art and worked his genius and magic on them. Orozco thinks with beautiful originality, by a fierce act of will and imagination, that they come alive as images.


Good Night and God Bless!

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