Gabriel Orozco is profiled in the Wall Street Journal, as his show, Asterisms, opens tonight at the Guggenheim. The show contains photographs and sculptural vignettes of thousands of pieces of debris collected by the artist from the wildlife reserve Isla Arena in Mexico and from Pier 40 in Manhattan. “It’s amazing how the nature, and the accident, and the sand, the elements make them look very—they’re very suggestive of things you know,” he said.

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Gabriel Orozco, Sandstars (2012)

Exploring qualities of taxonomic classification, Mexican-born artist Gabriel Orozco frequently picks his subjects apart, examining numerous elements before assembling or arranging them in the gallery context.  His pieces have explored the interaction between nature and culture on micro and macro levels, using scientific forms to classify and categorize these encounters.

Gabriel Orozco, Astroturf Constellation (2012)

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