{"data":{"id":"4800","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":4800,"topgoose_id":1194,"tms_id":4800,"display_name":"Gabriel Orozco","sort_name":"Orozco Gabriel","display_date":"1962–","begin_date":"1962","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eGabriel Orozco first gained renown in the\nearly 1990s, when he developed an\nitinerant poststudio practice consisting\nlargely of improvised, site-responsive\ninterventions and became part of a\nglobalized network of artists whose work\nhas been loosely classified as Relational\nAesthetics. He is known for engaging\nhis (often urban) surroundings by activating\nmaterials he encounters on the street\nand creating improvised arrangements of\nfound objects. Although such impromptu\ntableaux are inherently ephemeral,\nthe artist has frequently used them as the\nbasis for photographs that function as\nautonomous images rather than as mere\ndocuments of his original compositions.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrozco created his four-part photographic series \u003cem\u003eParachute in Iceland\u003c/em\u003e in October 1996 for a two-person show with \u003ca href=\"/artists/9382\"\u003eRirkrit Tiravanija\u003c/a\u003e at the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik. The series features a parachute Orozco purchased from an Army-Navy surplus store on New York’s Canal Street, photographed within a barren Icelandic landscape. After anchoring its strings to the ground, he released the bright white fabric form and captured it from all four cardinal directions.\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/11280\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eParachute\nin Iceland (South\u003c/em\u003e)\u003c/a\u003e it is pictured head-on, the taut fabric forming a near perfect circle against the horizon line. The composition recalls the circular motif that has appeared repeatedly in Orozco’s work since the early 1990s, while the photograph serves as a record of the artist’s site-specific action. As Orozco noted, “Not having a technique that is always the same and not having a proper studio makes me focus on the moment I’m living in and the place I’m living in, which I then try to use to make the work.”\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500114732","wikidata_id":"Q1242404","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:12:16.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-11T07:01:08.003-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/4800/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/4800/exhibitions"}}}}