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Dami�n Ortega: Survival of the Idea

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The Mexican artist Dami�n Ortega loves to dissemble iconic consumer goods--Coke bottles, Volkswagen Beetles, even tortilla chips--and recombine their parts to produce refreshing sculptural perspectives on their cultural meaning and function. For this book he has put together a selection of drawings, made between 1991 and 2007, that were created to plot these sculptures and their installations. Ortega, who was once a political cartoonist, retains in his drawings an open-endedness that invites the viewer to imagine the work's possible applications. The book's title, Supervivencia de la Idea , refers to its partial status as an archive of ideas--some of which have already been executed, others of which await realization, as with Ortega's recent mobile obelisk for New York's Central Park.
Dami�n Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , Tate Modern, London and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia , among others.

Pages: 126

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Release: February 01, 2008

ISBN: 3775720758

ISBN 13: 9783775720755

Dami�n Ortega: Survival of the Idea

0/5 ( ratings)

The Mexican artist Dami�n Ortega loves to dissemble iconic consumer goods--Coke bottles, Volkswagen Beetles, even tortilla chips--and recombine their parts to produce refreshing sculptural perspectives on their cultural meaning and function. For this book he has put together a selection of drawings, made between 1991 and 2007, that were created to plot these sculptures and their installations. Ortega, who was once a political cartoonist, retains in his drawings an open-endedness that invites the viewer to imagine the work's possible applications. The book's title, Supervivencia de la Idea , refers to its partial status as an archive of ideas--some of which have already been executed, others of which await realization, as with Ortega's recent mobile obelisk for New York's Central Park.
Dami�n Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , Tate Modern, London and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia , among others.

Pages: 126

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Release: February 01, 2008

ISBN: 3775720758

ISBN 13: 9783775720755

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