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Gabriel Orozco
"I have built a hotel in Sorrento" wrote Gio Ponti "And, although there wasn't really any need, I wanted each of the hundred rooms to have a different majolica pattern on the floor''.
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" The circle for me is a very useful Instrument in terms of movement,
in relation to gravity and erosion. It's the tendency of objects when they're
in movement and are eroded by friction..."
Gabriel Orozco
in relation to gravity and erosion. It's the tendency of objects when they're
in movement and are eroded by friction..."
Gabriel Orozco
Gio Ponti
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Gabriel Orozco
1. Have you ever seen a floor more beautiful?
Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, Italy
The luxury hotel remains as Gio Ponti intended. He designed everything in the hotel, from the pale wood furniture upholstered in blue fabrics in the bedrooms to the 30 different geometric patterned blue and white tiles that adorn the floors to the design of the blue ceramic pebbles and tiles that cover the walls next to the lifts and the pillars in the lobby. Even the crockery is specified as Melotti majolica plates..
2. "What is most important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again." - Orozco
Gabriel Orozco's MOCA show here in Los Angeles 10 years ago changed the way I look at art. I left the building that afternoon in silence. These circles, the toilet paper spinning on the fans, tables full of ceramics and memorabilia of some sort of journey left me confused. Ever since, I've been looking for wet tire marks on the pavement. Simple delights after a city's summer rain.
image above: From the Samurai Tree series, IM (2006), egg tempera on red cedar panel with gold leaf, 21 5/8 x 21 5/8"
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