Thursday, February 11, 2010

12:30 PM

Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation—and one of the last to come of age in the twentieth century. He resists confinement to a single medium and deliberately blurs the boundaries between the art object and the everyday environment. This talk addresses the current MoMA exhibition and the artist’s merging of "art" and "reality.”

Paulina Pobocha is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.