Gabriel Orozco
03 Nov 2006 - 27 Jan 2007
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Gabriel Orozco
Samurai’s Tree Invariant
03 Nov 2006 bis 29 Jan 2007
For his exhibition Samurai's Tree Invariant in the Museum Ludwig Gabriel Orozco has developed 672 digital prints in a 50 x 50 cm format and arranged them in seven rows across the four high walls of the DC:Room. Each print is unique, although every one depicts the same geometric form, consisting of various large circles. This composition is invariant. The color however changes from one print to the next, allowing anomalous constellations to appear.
Moving in a pattern like the pace of a knight in a game of chess („two forward, one across“) the three primary colors, red, blue and yellow wander from one segment of the circle to the next. Using a computer program the artist has run through all possible moves. In their entirety they seem to be revolving around different axes, as if they were 672 snap-shots of the movement. An animation, which is also on view in the exhibition, emphasizes this; it shows the 672 scenes in a loop of one-second sequences.
Orozco has been working with the circle constructions shown since the mid 1990s. Samurai’s Tree Invariant is the first work to present all possible declinations of an invariant basic form simultaneously. The exhibition visitors stand in the midst of a sequence of images – lacking a beginning or an end. For Orozco the circle symbolizes „total movement but also total statics. Total flatness but also total volume“. Samurai’s Tree Invariant, as well as the circle itself, seem to be dynamic and still at the same time.
The exhibition Samurai's Tree Invariant in the DC:Room of the Museum Ludwig is being shown on occasion of the award of the blueOrange 2006 by the German Cooperative Banks – Deutsche Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken – to the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco. Endowed with a prize-money of 77.000 Euros, the blueOrange is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards for visual arts in Germany and Europe.
Gabriel Orozco
Samurai’s Tree Invariant
03 Nov 2006 bis 29 Jan 2007
For his exhibition Samurai's Tree Invariant in the Museum Ludwig Gabriel Orozco has developed 672 digital prints in a 50 x 50 cm format and arranged them in seven rows across the four high walls of the DC:Room. Each print is unique, although every one depicts the same geometric form, consisting of various large circles. This composition is invariant. The color however changes from one print to the next, allowing anomalous constellations to appear.
Moving in a pattern like the pace of a knight in a game of chess („two forward, one across“) the three primary colors, red, blue and yellow wander from one segment of the circle to the next. Using a computer program the artist has run through all possible moves. In their entirety they seem to be revolving around different axes, as if they were 672 snap-shots of the movement. An animation, which is also on view in the exhibition, emphasizes this; it shows the 672 scenes in a loop of one-second sequences.
Orozco has been working with the circle constructions shown since the mid 1990s. Samurai’s Tree Invariant is the first work to present all possible declinations of an invariant basic form simultaneously. The exhibition visitors stand in the midst of a sequence of images – lacking a beginning or an end. For Orozco the circle symbolizes „total movement but also total statics. Total flatness but also total volume“. Samurai’s Tree Invariant, as well as the circle itself, seem to be dynamic and still at the same time.
The exhibition Samurai's Tree Invariant in the DC:Room of the Museum Ludwig is being shown on occasion of the award of the blueOrange 2006 by the German Cooperative Banks – Deutsche Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken – to the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco. Endowed with a prize-money of 77.000 Euros, the blueOrange is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards for visual arts in Germany and Europe.